On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Faye Gibbins
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> Hi,
>
>  Any comment from the SL5 distro  maintainers on this exploit apparently in
> recent RHEL releases?

The vulnerability has been there for a long time. It has only just
been found by someone who works on the kernel. The finders comments
are a bit off.. he first states that its a Red Hat problem and then
mentions that people who are going to be using various applications
would have to turn it off anyway.

My guess is that the SL people will have the updated kernels out as
soon as they are tested.

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/
>
> Faye
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