Re: bind update and kernel update?

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fedora (fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> last week there was a BIND vulnerability fix.

For BIND 8, yes. Fedora Core ships with BIND 9. Unless you're
talking about a different fix from last week.

> Earlier today debian released updated kernel fixes that fix a user-space 
> vulnerability in the kernel. Whats wierd is this was already noted and 
> fixed in the 2.4.23 kernel (found in september). The current kernel does 
> not appear to have this patch that addresses the do_brk() function in 
> mmpap.c (although theres arguments on some lists as to whether the 
> 2.4.18-mmap-sem-debug.patch addressed this in the past).

The Fedora Core 1 kernel is not vulnerable to this issue, AFAIK.

Bill




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