Re: [gentoo-security] FYI: Suse warns of hole in Linux kernel

[Benjamin Martin]

Anyhow, it is fixed in recent kernel versions and taking into account how easy
it is to upgrade kernels on a gentoo box (compared to SUSE) it isn't much of
a problem, i think. It's an admin's task to check for these things and take
the necessary steps (in this case upgrading the kernel).

Cheers,

Ben

On 23:57 Fri 29 Oct     , Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote:
> On Friday 29 October 2004 23:26, Pedro Venda wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > if it is a specific bug for suse linux distro and to S390 platform, i
> > suppose it doesn't qualify as a "kernel bug"...
> >
> > won't you agree?
> It's not SUSE specific see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68375
>
> >
> > []
> >
> > Miguel Filipe wrote:
> > > I believe that this:
> > > http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2004/Oct/0223.html is related.
> > > That link talks about a bug in the iptables "log" code.
> > > It might be that, the remote root acording to that anouncement is on
> > > S390 machines.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:52:30 +0200, Benjamin Martin <outrage@×××.net>
> wrote:
> > >>The article doesn't really give a lot of information about what kind of
> > >> flaw it is. It just talks about a "packet". What kind of packet? What
> > >> kind of bug?
> > >>
> > >>With the information given it's pretty hard to judge on severity,
> > >>
> > >>Cheers,
> > >>
> > >>Ben
> > >>
> > >>On 21:26 Thu 28 Oct     , Rui Covelo wrote:
> > >
> > > Found this on OSNews:
> > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/27/HNsusewarns_1.html
> > >
> > >
> > > What are your thoughts on this?
> >
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> Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervosz)
> Operational Manager
> Gentoo Linux Security Team



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