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Timothy A. Holmes wrote: |
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> As of this morning, the latest Kernel version in portage is 2.6.16-r12. |
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> It seems that there is a different versioning / naming scheme used but |
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> im not sure. Can someone please let me know how to respond, or point me |
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> to appropriate reading so I can protect myself. |
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2.6.16-r12 is protected from this bug. From the ChangeLog: |
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*gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r12 (06 Jul 2006) |
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06 Jul 2006; Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o> |
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+gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r12.ebuild: |
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Update to Linux 2.6.16.24 for coredump privilege escalation security fix |
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However, there is a new security bug in the wild, with similar |
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implications. Keep an eye open for new kernel releases over the next few |
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hours. |
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Daniel |
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