Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-15 Thread Michael A. Peters
Valent Turkovic wrote: Where is it pointing for updates? #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 g

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-15 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Michael A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, kfx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Valent Turkovic wrote: > >> > I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. > >> > http://blog.kagesenshi.or

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-15 Thread Michael A. Peters
Valent Turkovic wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, kfx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Valent Turkovic wrote: > I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. > http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html > > And I see my centos box still has: 2.6.18-53.1.4.el

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-15 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:58 AM, kfx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. > > http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html > > > > And I see my centos box still has: 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 > > > > yu

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Feb 11, 2008 10:52 AM, Scott McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:45 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: We have to wait and see, but my impression is that the nfs fix would not be in the updated kernel (I hope I am wrong). They are talking about getting

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Feb 11, 2008 10:52 AM, Scott McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:45 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > We have to wait and see, but my impression is that the nfs fix would > > not be in the updated kernel (I hope I am wrong). They are talking > > about getting it int

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-12 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:56:28PM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > Yes, but conceivable an application can make use of such a system > > > call since it is exploitable from user land and hence the concern. > > Well, the point is there's nothing wrong with the system call > > *inherently*. The

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-12 Thread Florin Andrei
jarmo wrote: Ofcource there's a way, get vanilla kernel 2.6.24.2 and use old config compile it and run. I've done it. I am running a 2.6.24.x kernel built like that on CentOS 5.1 x86_64, but be careful, some manual tweaking with "make menuconfig" is required, since there are too many differe

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-12 Thread kfx
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Feb 12, 2008 8:40 AM, kfx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did, for the record: http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/ BEWARE that it will remove ALL the older kernels. No, that is simply not true. I have tested a couple of kernels from http://people.redhat.com/dzicku

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-12 Thread Jim Perrin
On Feb 12, 2008 11:40 AM, kfx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did, for the record: http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/ > BEWARE that it will remove ALL the older kernels. It will do this if you install via rpm -Uvh, as the the upgrade implies the removal of older versions. -ivh will install it n

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Feb 12, 2008 8:40 AM, kfx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, we are not going to rush a non tested patch out the door. > > There are patches listed on the upstream bug, if you (figurative ... > > meaning anyone who wants to not wait) really want to integrate that > > into your own kernels

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-12 Thread kfx
Johnny Hughes wrote: kfx wrote: R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, kfx wrote: The official patch for debian is out since a couple of hours... Why does it take so long for RHEL ? Just a question, not a troll or something. 1. ask them it was a question, not a troll (bis). However, yo

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
kfx wrote: R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, kfx wrote: The official patch for debian is out since a couple of hours... Why does it take so long for RHEL ? Just a question, not a troll or something. 1. ask them it was a question, not a troll (bis). However, you are asking the wrong

RE: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > I wonder if any existing user-land utilities have hooks into > > > > vmsplice that may be able to be accessed via PHP, Perl, or CGI? > > > It's a system call. > > Yes, but conceivable an applicatio

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread jarmo
Dag Wieers kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 11. helmikuuta 2008): > And *poof* you lost all support or reproducability that people crave when > using CentOS or RHEL. > > So yes, it is a possibility, but probably unlikely when people have chosen > CentOS or RHEL. And especially for tho

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > I wonder if any existing user-land utilities have hooks into > > > vmsplice that may be able to be accessed via PHP, Perl, or CGI? > > It's a system call. > Yes, but conceivable an application can make use of such a system > c

RE: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:26:57PM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Problem with Debian patch is it may conflict with some of the RH > > backports, but if it works why not submit it to CentOS team for > > testing as I hear the RH current workaround has issues with GPFs

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:26:57PM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Problem with Debian patch is it may conflict with some of the RH > backports, but if it works why not submit it to CentOS team for > testing as I hear the RH current workaround has issues with GPFs. I think that's with the powert

RE: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Dag Wieers wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > Dag Wieers wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, jarmo wrote: > > > > > > > Ofcource there's a way, get vanilla kernel 2.6.24.2 and use > > > old config > > > > compile it and run. I've done it. > > > > > > And *poof* you lost

RE: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, jarmo wrote: > > > > > Ofcource there's a way, get vanilla kernel 2.6.24.2 and use > > old config > > > compile it and run. I've done it. > > > > And *poof* you lost all support or reproducability that > > p

RE: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Dag Wieers wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, jarmo wrote: > > > Scott McClanahan kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika > maanantai, 11. helmikuuta > > 2008): > > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:45 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > > On Feb 11, 2008 8:19 AM, Scott McClanahan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote:

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, jarmo wrote: > Scott McClanahan kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 11. helmikuuta > 2008): > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:45 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > On Feb 11, 2008 8:19 AM, Scott McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 04:52 -0800

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread jarmo
Scott McClanahan kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 11. helmikuuta 2008): > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:45 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2008 8:19 AM, Scott McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 04:52 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > > Valent Tur

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:45 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008 8:19 AM, Scott McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 04:52 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > > > I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. > > > > http://

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Feb 11, 2008 8:19 AM, Scott McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 04:52 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > > I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. > > > http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html > > >

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 04:52 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Valent Turkovic wrote: > > I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. > > http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html > > > > And I see my centos box still has: 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 > > > > yum says the

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Ray Van Dolson
>> 2. there have been reports of stability problems with the patch > you mean that adding a validation of users input in a code lead to > stability problem ? To avoid continuing speculation, you should really just go ask RH directly. Ask in the bz thread if you like. Ray ___

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread kfx
R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, kfx wrote: The official patch for debian is out since a couple of hours... Why does it take so long for RHEL ? Just a question, not a troll or something. 1. ask them it was a question, not a troll (bis). 2. there have been reports of stability probl

[CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, kfx wrote: The official patch for debian is out since a couple of hours... Why does it take so long for RHEL ? Just a question, not a troll or something. 1. ask them 2. there have been reports of stability problems with the patch -- it does little good to rush out a fix

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread kfx
The official patch for debian is out since a couple of hours... Why does it take so long for RHEL ? Just a question, not a troll or something. kfx ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
Valent Turkovic wrote: I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html And I see my centos box still has: 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 yum says there are no updates... am I safe? Valent.

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
Valent Turkovic wrote: I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html And I see my centos box still has: 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 yum says there are no updates... am I safe? Valent. Define safe :) The RHEL-5 (and therefore

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Valent Turkovic wrote: > I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. > http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html > > And I see my centos box still has: 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 > > yum says there are no updates... am I safe? No, you are not safe - and you should have r

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread kfx
Valent Turkovic wrote: I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html And I see my centos box still has: 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 yum says there are no updates... am I safe? Valent. No you're not... and we are a lot in this v

[CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-11 Thread Valent Turkovic
I saw that there is a local root exploit in the wild. http://blog.kagesenshi.org/2008/02/local-root-exploit-on-wild.html And I see my centos box still has: 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 yum says there are no updates... am I safe? Valent. ___ CentOS mailing list