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From: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@g.o>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] FYI: Suse warns of hole in Linux kernel
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:57:35
Message-Id: 200410292357.08879.jaervosz@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] FYI: Suse warns of hole in Linux kernel by Pedro Venda
1 On Friday 29 October 2004 23:26, Pedro Venda wrote:
2 > hi,
3 >
4 > if it is a specific bug for suse linux distro and to S390 platform, i
5 > suppose it doesn't qualify as a "kernel bug"...
6 >
7 > won't you agree?
8 It's not SUSE specific see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68375
9
10 >
11 > []
12 >
13 > Miguel Filipe wrote:
14 > > I believe that this:
15 > > http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2004/Oct/0223.html is related.
16 > > That link talks about a bug in the iptables "log" code.
17 > > It might be that, the remote root acording to that anouncement is on
18 > > S390 machines.
19 > >
20 > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:52:30 +0200, Benjamin Martin <outrage@×××.net>
21 wrote:
22 > >>The article doesn't really give a lot of information about what kind of
23 > >> flaw it is. It just talks about a "packet". What kind of packet? What
24 > >> kind of bug?
25 > >>
26 > >>With the information given it's pretty hard to judge on severity,
27 > >>
28 > >>Cheers,
29 > >>
30 > >>Ben
31 > >>
32 > >>On 21:26 Thu 28 Oct , Rui Covelo wrote:
33 > >
34 > > Found this on OSNews:
35 > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/27/HNsusewarns_1.html
36 > >
37 > >
38 > > What are your thoughts on this?
39 >
40 > --
41 > gentoo-security@g.o mailing list
42
43 --
44 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervosz)
45 Operational Manager
46 Gentoo Linux Security Team

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Re: [gentoo-security] FYI: Suse warns of hole in Linux kernel Benjamin Martin <outrage@×××.net>