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Re: Most Debian Machines temporarily restricted



On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:59:07PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Due to the most recent Linux kernel vulnerability that was disclosed
> today, Debian admins had to restrict all hosts temporarily in order to
> install a corrected kernel.
> 
> The vulnerability was disclosed by iSEC today and is described here:
> <http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0015-msfilter.txt>
> 
> Most core non-porting and non-buildd machines are already fixed and
> accessible again.  This refers to the following machines:
> 
>  o newsamosa
>  o newraff
>  o spohr
>  o saens
>  o master
>  o murphy
> 
> Unfortunately gluck requires action from a local admin, so
> <http://people.debian.org/> is currently not available.
> 
> The local admins of the other machines are informed.
> 
> The hosts will be unrestricted as soon as we can confirm that a
> corrected kernel is installed and running.

What's the status of this?

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G. Branden Robinson                |    I am sorry, but what you have
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    mistaken for malicious intent is
branden@debian.org                 |    nothing more than sheer
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    incompetence!     -- J. L. Rizzo II

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