Re: [SECURITY] Updated Fedora Core 1 kernel packages.

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Hi Dave,

> The kernel shipped with Fedora Core 1 was vulnerable to a bug in the
> error return on a concurrent fork() with threaded exit() which could be
> exploited by a user level program to crash the kernel.
> 
> In addition to this bug fix, the changelog below details various
> other non security fixes that have been added.

 How about the do_brk() vulnerability that was fixed for the Red Hat Linux 
kernels? Is the Fedora kernel not vulnerable for this overflow?

Bye,
Leonard.




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