Fix for vmsplice exploit...

[Mark Komarinski]

On 02/13/2008 01:28 PM, Shawn O'Shea wrote:
>
>
> On 2/13/08, *Ted Roche* <tedroche at tedroche.com 
> <mailto:tedroche at tedroche.com>> wrote:
>
>     Alex Hewitt wrote:
>     > Just after I turned on my Ubuntu 7.10 laptop this morning the update
>     > manager informed me of a fix for the vmsplice exploit. The
>     description:
>     >
>
>     I saw the patch come in over the Red Hat Network for a couple of
>     Red Hat
>     systems we have subscriptions for, too. Nice to see such quick
>     response
>     time!
>
> Johnny Hughes announced the availability of updated kernels for CentOS 
> today too.
> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-February/094314.html
There's a module we're using that fixes a running kernel.

http://home.powertech.no/oystein/ptpatch2008/

The patch that made use of the exploit to patch caused two of our 
servers to crash.  The module has been working without issue *knock on 
wood*.

-Mark