On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:17:12PM -0700, Christopher wrote: > I looked through the advisories from several Linux distros, but did not > see any mention as to if this update needs a reboot, or just a daemon > restart. The rpm does a restart of the udev daemon, so I am assuming a > reboot is not necessary, but it would be nice if someone could confirm > this.
No. This most certainly does not require a reboot. The vulnerability is with udev itself not checking Netlink message origins. Once the updated code is loaded, the problem goes away. -- Justin Cook _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
