I just did an emerge -u --deep world. It did not list the gentoo-source
as a package it would upgrade, but I happened to look at the messages
streaming by and saw that it was installing 2.4.20-r6.
I was kind-of surprised that I'd get a new kernel version so stealthily.
qpkg shows I have r5 and r6
I quote from the forum (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=7)
-- quote --
"The route cache implementation in Linux 2.4, and the Netfilter IP
conntrack module, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(CPU consumption) via packets with forged source addresses that cause a
Chris Bare wrote:
I just did an emerge -u --deep world. It did not list the gentoo-source
as a package it would upgrade, but I happened to look at the messages
streaming by and saw that it was installing 2.4.20-r6.
That is very odd. Run 'regenworld' and 'emerge regen'. Read below.
I was kind-of
