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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> In the remote chance that people here havn't already spotted it (there was
> mention of it on one of the Centos lists yesterday and lots of other places),
> there is likely to be a kernel security update for el-5 really soon (el-4 and
> earlier are not affected).
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432251
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> Comment #39 says:
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> ... and are finishing up the QA process for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
> We expect this to be completed shortly (pending successful completion of
> testing). This will be RHSA-2008:0129.
>
> I'm assuming that since this is an urgent security issue they will just be
> adding the trivial upstream patch into kernel -53.1.x rather than waiting for
> -79+ to finish full QA.
The announcement for -53.1.13 just arrived. Alas, the SRPM is not yet on
their ftp server, hence I couldn't check what's actually in there, and
Connie and Troy can't rebuild it.
We're rolling out an emergency build on certain systems tonight, with a
patch that at least renders the public exploit useless. If anyone wants
it, let me know whithin the next 1.5 hours and I'll make it accessible via
http.
--
Stephan Wiesand
DESY - DV -
Platanenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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