Re: Linux 2.4.22-pre8

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 07:41:22 EST


On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Nuno Silva wrote:

> Hi Marcelo!
>
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here goes -pre8. It contains network driver updates, IEEE1394 update, a
> > POSIX compliance fix introduced by the execve() security fixes during
> > early -pre, amongst others.
> >
>
> [..snip..]
>
> Can you, please(!!), tell me if this release fixes all the known
> security problems that compromise root? :)
>
> There's a lot of information available and some people says that
> everything is "good" in recent vanilla-preX. Others says it isn't.

As far as I know, all known security problems are fixed. All security
fixes from -ac are in mainline.

So if anyone knows any security problem which is not fixed yet, please
inform me.
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