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From: Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on LFS in Redhat
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 01:09:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031225010925.GG4987@vnl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031224084903.GB20976@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 09:49:03AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> You really shouldn't be running a 2.4.16 kernel (not without the latest
> security patches for such a kernel from a distro) given the amount of security issues
> fixed since... and since I don't think any distro ever shipped 2.4.16 (some
> shipped 2.4.17, a bunch shipped 2.4.18 but even RH doesn't do patches for
> that 2.4.18 tree anymore since they have been obsoleted by 2.4.20 and newer
> kernels).

Not really my choice... and from what you say I'd better
not *touch* their stock kernel if I a project for which I 
specced that box happens.

Also, fresh feedback from the Consensys is that:

	"Just to be precise - As of today the kernel 
	 is 2.4.18-i59smp #1"

So that is a little better but still a little out
of date. I'm not terribly worried about the local
exploit because you don't tend to want to allow external
login accounts on things on your SAN's...

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-25  1:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-23 15:10 Question on LFS in Redhat Dale Amon
2003-12-23 15:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-23 23:58   ` Dale Amon
2003-12-24  0:24     ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-24  8:49     ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-25  1:09       ` Dale Amon [this message]
2003-12-25  8:35         ` Arjan van de Ven

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