The answer is download.xs4all.nl:/pub/mirror/redhat-updates
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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, James Olin Oden wrote:
> >
> > What are you talking about?
> >
> > RH contrib? Some other site where you can get kernels
> > packaged as RPMs?
> >
> > We're talking about an enterprise environment here,
> > OFFICIAL RH errata. Whether or not this is the right
> > way to go, this is where people look.
> >
> > Why don't you head on over to
> > ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/redhat/updates/5.2/i386/
> > (a respectable RH mirror site, no doubt) and check what kernel version
> > they have in stock. The site is updated, there is nothing wrong with
> > it. The official RH errata does indeed contain only kernel 2.0.36.
> >
> Actually, when it comes to older realeases such as RH 5.x, then do
> not expect even ftp.cdrom.com to be upto date. Until about two months
> ago, one of our servers was running the RH 5.2 distribution. A little
> before we made the conversion to RH 6.1 yet another exploit was found in
> the wu-ftpd daemon. At the time, it was really hard to get a connection
> to updates.redhat.com. So I went looking around for a mirror that still had
> the RH 5.2 stuff. Well, I got to ftp.cdrom.com and downloaded the wu-ftdp
> errata file they had, and installed it without checking its version (a
> VERY dumb thing to do )-: ). Unfortunately, it happened to be something
> older than the rpm I was already using. This really hosed things as you
> might imagine. Eventually I got conencted to updates.redhat.com, and
> downloaded the correct version with the fix for the exploit.
>
> The moral is that mirrors often times may have the a distro's early realeases,
> but they are probably only truely mirroring the current release.
>
> ..james
>
> > Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, if YOU CHECK you will find that there are RPM's for kernel 2.0.38
> > > for redhat 5.x - compiled and ready.
> > >
> > > Just rpm -Uvh kernel-2.0.38(whatever the name is) and thats it..
> > >
> > > Hetz
> > >
> > > Omer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Irrelevant.
> > > >
> > > > Most people will not upgrade the kernel on their own
> > > > to the latest stable version, but rather would only
> > > > upgrade using the official vendor errata. This is how
> > > > it is for all of the big-time operating systems, and
> > > > since Linux is poised to make it to the big time, you
> > > > have to expect this practice to become a lot more common.
> > > >
> > > > To which: Say you're a RH user, using 5.x.
> > > >
> > > > You will be using RedHat's errata updated for 5.2.
> > > >
> > > > The latest kernel included is 2.0.36, not patched
> > > > to fix this.
> > > >
> > > > Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > It fixed long time ago on kernel 2.0.38
> > > > >
> > > > > Hetz
> > > > >
> > > > > Omer wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This was posted to BugTraq today, and it seemed
> > > > > > important enough to pass on (even though if you are
> > > > > > a sysadmin and do not regularly read BT, you might
> > > > > > deserve what you get).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It's what I'd call a HUGE problem, not
> > > > > > merely a big problem (unless of course you have
> > > > > > no local users). In any case, I'd chmod u-s /bin/ping
> > > > > > immediatly, and be careful not to ping as root (if
> > > > > > you're not sure you're up to it, better make it
> > > > > > chmod 000 /bin/ping :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Message to BT follows...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Eduardo Cruz wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hello ppl.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Last week i was playing with my old linux 2.0.36 i486 box, while i was
> > > > > > playing with the command ping and trying combinations of commands
> > > > > > i found that when u do a ping -s 65468 -R ANYIPADDRESS ( -R record
> > > > > > route) the system starts to print on the screen kernel dumps
> > > > > > , freezes complitely and after few secconds the system reboots.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The major problem with this (if this is a bug, because i dont have time
> > > > > > to install differents kernels and test it better) is that command can be
> > > > > > run by everyone
> > > > > > because you dont need root permissions to make a -R.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I tested this on a 2.0.35 and .36 (both slackware), when u try to do this
> > > > > > on a 2.2.x the system prints out "message too long".
> > > > > > I think the problem is that there is a size-check missed when u reach the
> > > > > > maximun packet size and u put the route information, but anyway
> > > > > > i am not a guru on kernels.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So, now is time for the kernel experts :)
> > > > > >
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