[Users] RHEL kernel-rt security update

Ernesto Ongaro ernesto at etszone.com
Wed Sep 9 11:18:34 EDT 2009


Thanks Thorsten - still need a kernel for RHEL4 with the patch though,
anyone handling this?

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 09:33 +0200, Thorsten Schifferdecker wrote:
> reHi,
> 
> 
> see http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5/028stab064.7
> 
> ---8<...
> Since 028stab064.4:
> 
>     * Fix for CVE-2009-2692
>     * Fix for CVE-2009-2698 
> ---8<...
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Bye,
>  Thorsten
> --
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> 
> 
> On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:32:01 -0700 Ernesto Ongaro <ernesto at etszone.com> wrote
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > There's a recent high priority kernel security update to RHEL 3|4|5 that
> > fixes a bug that allows an unprivilidged local user to escalate their
> > privilidges.
> > 
> > More details about the problem and fixes here:
> > RHEL5: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1222.html
> > RHEL4: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1223.html
> > RHEL3: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1233.html
> > 
> > 
> > Anyone know if there are any plans to include these fixes into the
> > OpenVZ kernels?
> > --
> > Ernesto Ongaro
> 
> 
> 
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