Re: Will 2.4.20 Source be patched for the latest kernel vulnerability?
Just got an email from Herbert Xu and he stated that
the patched 2.4.20 source will be uploaded as soon as
unstable is open again.
--- John Keimel <john@keimel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 05:52:27PM -0800, peace
> bwitchu wrote:
> > Will 2.4.20 Source be patched for the latest
> kernel
> > local root vulnerability?
> >
>
> From the announcement we see:
>
> > This bug has been fixed in kernel version 2.4.23
> for the 2.4 tree and
> > 2.6.0-test6 kernel tree. For Debian it has been
> fixed in version
> > 2.4.18-12 of the kernel source packages, version
> 2.4.18-14 of the i386
> > kernel images and version 2.4.18-11 of the alpha
> kernel images.
>
> It's been my experience that aside from this, don't
> expect any further
> patches aside from continuing inclusion in
> subsequent kernels (2.4.24
> and later).
>
> I could be wrong ;)
>
> j
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