SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-DEVEL Archives

February 2008

SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-DEVEL@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV

Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:34:36 -0600
Content-Type:
TEXT/PLAIN
Parts/Attachments:
TEXT/PLAIN (44 lines)
Rebuild in process.
Will post when done.

-Connie Sieh
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Connie Sieh wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> 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).
>>>
>>>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432251
>>> 
>>> Comment #39 says:
>>>
>>>  ... 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.
>
> It is there now.  Downloading it.
>
> -Connie Sieh
>
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>

ATOM RSS1 RSS2