Bug#307900: acknowledged by developer (Fixed in kernel-source-2.6.8 2.6.8-15)
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:57:43PM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
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> >This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> >#307900: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: This image, and maybe some others are
> >easiably locally rootable. Exploit included.,
> >which was filed against the kernel-source-2.6.8 package.
> >
> >It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> >Horms <horms@debian.org>.
> >
> >Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is
> >unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate
> >message then please contact the developer, by replying to this email.
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> >Debian bug tracking system administrator
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> >Received: (at 307900-done) by bugs.debian.org; 10 May 2005 08:40:49 +0000
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> >
> Great, thanks! One question, this means kernel-images for Sarge will be
> compiled from fixed kernel-source?
I don't beleive this code will make it into sarge - the kernel
has actually been frozen for a while now because of process
problams that in a nushell mean that updating the kernel
delays the release by 2 months. But it should appear in
the rc1 update release of sarge and/or secutiry updates.
--
Horms
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