Hi Folks:
I received the following warning from SANS yesterday, and I need to know
how to appropriately respond:
http://www.isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1482
To summarize the story at the above link, there appears to be a
vulnerability in the linux kernel, which when exploited, will allow a
us
On 7/14/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As of this morning, the latest Kernel version in portage is 2.6.16-r12.
Using gentoo-sources? Check /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/ChangeLog:
*gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r12 (06 Jul 2006)
06 Jul 2006; Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Saturday, 15 July 2006 6:31, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Hi Folks:
>
> I received the following warning from SANS yesterday, and I need to know
> how to appropriately respond:
>
> http://www.isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1482
>
> To summarize the story at the above link, there appears to be a
>
Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> As of this morning, the latest Kernel version in portage is 2.6.16-r12.
> It seems that there is a different versioning / naming scheme used but
> im not sure. Can someone please let me know how to respond, or point me
> to appropriate reading so I can protect myself.
h
Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
As of this morning, the latest Kernel version in portage is 2.6.16-r12.
It seems that there is a different versioning / naming scheme used but
im not sure. Can someone please let me know how to respond, or point me
to appropriate reading so I can protect myself.
2.6.16
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 14:24 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> There's also
> the workaround mentioned in the SANS message if you don't feel
> comfortable with patching, as long as you don't need to use core dumps
> as non-root.
Besides that, there's also the fact that if you don't have local users,
Daniel Drake wrote:
However, there is a new security bug in the wild, with similar
implications. Keep an eye open for new kernel releases over the next few
hours.
No patch yet, suitable workaround is:
# mount -o remount,noexec /proc
Daniel
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> -Original Message-
> From: Daniel Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:59 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Kernel Warning
>
> Daniel Drake wrote:
> > However, there is a new security bu
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