On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, JoeHill wrote:
What confuses me, is that my default install of MDK 9.2 shows kernel version:
2.4.22-10
But MDK says 9.2 is safe.
Can someone clarify this for me?
It is very common for distributions to patch their own kernels seperately to the main tree. This way they ensure minimalist changes to their kernel and also keep whatever customisation or optimisations they have previously incorporated. So when upgrading to avoid an exploit like this, either go for a vanilla kernel which is known to be fixed (2.4.23 in this case) _or_ whatever version your distro maintainers advise is safe. Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org, zzbrock at uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml