Re: [cobalt-security] Linux cap kernel bug...

[Gossi The Dog <gossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Michael Zimmermann wrote:

> From: Jeff Lovell <jlovell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > This patch became publicly available the same day as this post.
> > It is downloadable from:
> > 
> > http://ftp.cobalt.com/pub/packages/raq3/eng/All-Kernel_i386-1.1.pkg
> 
> As the (well working) exploit is allready published,
> my advice is it to install the patch NOW!
> 
> I checked both the exploit and the patch on a RaQ3
> with OS 3.0 - everything fine.

I've had a few problems with our RaQ3 since we installed the patch - it
keeps occassionally ignoring telnet, ssh and ftp connections, but
continues to recieve apache web requests without problem.  This is either
an issue with the patch, or with our bandwidth provider, and I'll have to
look into it.

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