[WBEL-devel] new kernel

David Jao djao@dominia.org
Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:42:00 -0800


The RHEL 3 kernel is not vulnerable to the do_brk() security hole. See
the last paragraph in the security advisory at
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-389.html

-David

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 18:37, donavan nelson wrote:
> John,
> 
> Are you going to hold off on the next RC until we have a new kernel (which
> addresses the security problem)?
> 
> I just got pre notification from my firewall product that a new kernel is in
> the works.
> 
> I'd really like to see the patched kernel before the 2nd RC, I was going to
> use it on a public facing system (this time around).
> 
> .dn
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