Re: RHSA-2003:392-05 2.4 kernel fix

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On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:22:27PM -0500, Henry Hartley wrote:
> 
> I have a RH9 machine that hasn't been upgraded to FC1 yet as well as three
> FC1 machines.  I just got an Errata Alert from Red Hat about a 2.4 kernal
> fix for a privilege escalation security vulnerability (RHSA-2003:392-05 /
> CAN-2003-0961).  Does this apply to the 2.4.22 kernel in FC1 and if so, is
> there a fix for this in the Fedora repositories?  I haven't seen anything in
> fedora-announce.  Or do I just need to be a bit more patient?

2.4.22-1.2115.nptl kernel in FC1 is not vulnerable to this issue.
See linux-2.4.18-smallpatches.patch patch in
kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.src.rpm (mm/mmap.c change).

	Jakub




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