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From: Pedro Venda <pjlv@××××××××××××.pt>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Cc: miguel.filipe@×××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] FYI: Suse warns of hole in Linux kernel
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:26:36
Message-Id: 4182B56C.3010601@mega.ist.utl.pt
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] FYI: Suse warns of hole in Linux kernel by Miguel Filipe
1 hi,
2
3 if it is a specific bug for suse linux distro and to S390 platform, i
4 suppose it doesn't qualify as a "kernel bug"...
5
6 won't you agree?
7
8 []
9
10 Miguel Filipe wrote:
11 > I believe that this:
12 > http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2004/Oct/0223.html is related.
13 > That link talks about a bug in the iptables "log" code.
14 > It might be that, the remote root acording to that anouncement is on
15 > S390 machines.
16 >
17 >
18 >
19 > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:52:30 +0200, Benjamin Martin <outrage@×××.net> wrote:
20 >
21 >>The article doesn't really give a lot of information about what kind of flaw it
22 >>is. It just talks about a "packet". What kind of packet? What kind of bug?
23 >>
24 >>With the information given it's pretty hard to judge on severity,
25 >>
26 >>Cheers,
27 >>
28 >>Ben
29 >>
30 >>On 21:26 Thu 28 Oct , Rui Covelo wrote:
31 >>
32 >
33 >
34 >
35 > Found this on OSNews:
36 > http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/27/HNsusewarns_1.html
37 >
38 >
39 > What are your thoughts on this?
40 >
41
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Re: [gentoo-security] FYI: Suse warns of hole in Linux kernel Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@g.o>