[asterisk-users] zaptel compile kernel problem

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:30:31AM +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, reza adinata wrote:
> 
> > asterisk:/usr/src/zaptel-1.2.27# uname -r
> > 2.6.18-6-486
> 
> Just a minor issue here - there was an issue with kernels 2.6.18 whereby a 
> user could get root access by running a simple program. I'm not sure if 
> Debian patched it though, but it might be worthwhile checking and 
> upgrading the kernel if neccessary.

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1494 (Feb 2008)

Debian 4.0r5 was released at Oct 2008
(http://www.debian.org/News/2008/20081023) and included that fix.

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