On Mer, 2004-01-14 at 18:17, Adam Thornton wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:16:34PM -0500, Eric Sammons wrote: > > We are still working on our support contact so I am not sure I can get the > > quick and dirty from SuSE yet, so I wonder does anyone in this group know > > the availability status of 2.4.24 for SLES8? Also, anything to watch for > > or perhaps a readme for fixes, enhancements etc. . . > > > > Our security folks want us at this level ASAP so if it is available this > > could light the fire under our purchasing group. > > Is the bug that 2.4.24 fixes exploitable on non-x86 architectures?
Its very dependant on the exact platform. I would not be suprised to find that S/390 was immune or mostly immune. The way kernel v user space works on 390 is quite different to a PC. Most vendors btw will have backported the fixes rather than moving to 2.4.24.
