Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] CVE-2016-5195: mad cow disease

2016-10-24 Thread Pat Riehecky
Published. On 10/22/2016 12:58 PM, Andrew Z wrote: Pat and team, Do we have an estimate on the world shattering vulnerability ? //world shattering - is a sarcasm.

Re: CVE-2016-5195: mad cow disease

2016-10-23 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 9:38 AM, ~Stack~ wrote: > On 10/22/2016 02:52 PM, Denice wrote: >> As well, the importance of this vulnerability hinges on user access; >> in SANS newsbites yesterday, one of the editors made this remark >> about this kernel vulnerablity (branded by the person(s) who raised

Re: CVE-2016-5195: mad cow disease

2016-10-23 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/22/2016 02:52 PM, Denice wrote: > As well, the importance of this vulnerability hinges on user access; > in SANS newsbites yesterday, one of the editors made this remark > about this kernel vulnerablity (branded by the person(s) who raised > the issue: "Dirty Cow"): > >This is a privileg

Re: CVE-2016-5195: mad cow disease

2016-10-22 Thread Denice
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Andrew Z wrote: Pat and team, Do we have an estimate on the world shattering vulnerability ? As you are aware, this depends on how soon upstream (Red Hat) releases the updated RHEL kernels. Here is one reply from a RH

Re: CVE-2016-5195: mad cow disease

2016-10-22 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Andrew Z wrote: > Pat and team, > Do we have an estimate on the world shattering vulnerability ? As you are aware, this depends on how soon upstream (Red Hat) releases the updated RHEL kernels. Here is one reply from a RH person: " I apologize but we can't prov

CVE-2016-5195: mad cow disease

2016-10-22 Thread Andrew Z
Pat and team, Do we have an estimate on the world shattering vulnerability ? //world shattering - is a sarcasm.