Hi! On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 09:00:35PM +0300, Balint Szente wrote: > It is not always possible to reboot with the previous kernel. There are
Yeah, that's one more reason why user should decide is it better for him to update on ~ARCH kernel or wait until it will be stabilized. > This is not a remote vulnerability. It is a local one > (see <http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-4699>). > Usually on production servers there is no local access anyway for > arbitrary users. You do not let people to copy executables to your > server and run it afterwards. So this vulnerability is not critical at all. One trivial bug in one of .php on that server may give attacker ability to upload and run webshell, which in turn let him run exploit for that CVE. This may be more acceptable risk for non-hardened users, but we here use hardened and thus I suppose take even local root exploits more seriously. Also, not all hardened system is some production server - I'm using it on my home workstation-server, and it do have several user accounts for my friends or co-workers. At same time, I don't like the idea to give them root access to my workstation only because they have usual user account. > You can any time unmask the newer kernel and use it if it fits better > for you. There is no need to stabilize it blindly. Sure, I've already running hardened-sources-3.14.11-r1. -- WBR, Alex.
