Re: Unpatched major kernel

2010-08-29 Thread Marcel Rieux
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Re: Unpatched major kernel

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:54:05 -0400 Marcel Rieux wrote: ...snip... > August 13 is 10 days ago. Kernel.org now says the latest stable > version is: > > stable: 2.6.32.20 2010-08-20 > > http://www.all.kernel.org/ > > It was out 3 days ago. > > Any reason Fedora is not updating the k

Unpatched major kernel

2010-08-23 Thread Marcel Rieux
eldavojohn writes "On June 17th, the X.org team was notified by Invisible Things Lab of a critical security flaw (PDF) that affected both x86_32 and x86_64 platforms. The flaw deals with escalated privileges of a user process that has access to the X server. The founder of ITL said of the flaw, 'T