[Discuss] Notice about a new vulnerability

[shawn at ll.mit.edu (O'Shea, Shawn - 0665 - MITLL)]

According to Red Hat?s site (unauthenticated), RHEL is unaffected as they never back ported the vulnerable code. Fedora has an alert and updated packages.

Red Hat: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3290
Fedora: https://lwn.net/Articles/653734/

-Shawn

On Aug 6, 2015, at 9:46 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote:
> 
>> This is from a tweet I got from Dan Goodin, in which he asks "Anyone know
>> if any upstream stable Linux kernels have patched CVE-2015-3290 yet? It
>> looks serious."
>> 
> 
> ?Looks like it's in Debian Testing/Unstable and also Jessie(Security) patch
> stream.
> So yeah, it's Stable.
> 
> https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3313
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3290 ?
> ?https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3291
> ?https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5157
> 
> ?Ubuntu Security has pushed out for  14.04 LTS :
> http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2700-1/
> and 12.04 LTS http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2701-1/
> ?
> AFAIK ?Red Hat requires log-in to see what they've patched ?...
> 
> 
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