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On 26 September 2010 11:31, Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> Gentoo has been vulnerable to a highly-publicized (Guardian, Slashdot, |
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> the works) local privilege escalation for almost two weeks now. (Well, |
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> it has been vulnerable for years, but of course we didn't know about it |
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> until two weeks ago.) |
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> In the bugzilla thread tracking the problem it has been mentioned a few |
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> times that the kernel does not receive GLSA support: |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337645 |
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Kernels used to be covered in GLSAs. |
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I mourned the loss of kernel GLSAs quite a while back. |
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http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.security/month=20070401 |
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Kernels used to be included, but apparently it was too much work |
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getting all the version kernel versions in sync. |
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I used to have script that emailed me applicable GLSAs, and I never |
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heard that they stopped including the kernel, so I was miffed when I |
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found out. |
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I still don't understand why there isn't a single security alert point |
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of reference that covers everything on a Gentoo box though. |
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What would it take to get kernels included again? |
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/meh. |
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PS. Hardened Gentoo still rocks though. |
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