I thought you were a 2 bit operator :P On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Robert West <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'm a 2 bit operation. > > Really. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Mike Hammett > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 10:43 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Kernel Patching > > There's a difference between a 2 bit operation and 2 bit code. :-p > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > On 9/20/2010 6:51 PM, Marco Coelho wrote: > > Thanks for the update. Thank goodness I run only 2 bit code! > > > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Glenn Kelley<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Just a heads up. > >> Those of you who are running Debian, CentOS, RedHat and other systems > >> similar. > >> There is a pretty big security flaw on the 64 bit side of these > >> systems now labeled as > >> > >> CVE-2010-3081 > >> > >> In short > >> The flaw identified by CVE-2010-3081 (Red Hat Bugzilla bug 634457) > >> describes an issue in the 32/64-bit compatibility layer > >> implementation in the Linux kernel, versions 2.6.26-rc1 to > >> 2.6.36-rc4. The compat_alloc_user_space() function is missing a > >> sanity check on the length argument, and also a check to make sure > >> the pointer to the block of memory in user-space that the process is > >> attempting to write to is valid. This flaw was addressed via the > upstream > git commit c41d68a5 for the 2.6 Linux kernel. > >> This function could be abused in other areas of the Linux kernel if > >> the length argument can be controlled from user-space. A known > >> example of this is the compat_mc_getsockopt() function for > >> MCAST_MSFILTER that was introduced in upstream git commit 42908c69 > (v2.6.26-rc1). > >> You can easily fix this by implementing the patch located here: > >> > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h= > c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6. > >> As always - if you are stuck -please do not hesitate to contact me > >> offlist - while the patch is from 9/19/10 - many wispa's have not > >> patched their systems simply because they don't know they needed to. > >> As always - when in doubt check the security lists out :-) > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _____________________________________________________________________ > >> ________________ Glenn Kelley | Principle | HostMedic > >> |www.HostMedic.com > >> Email: [email protected] > >> Pplease don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> ----------- > >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! > >> http://signup.wispa.org/ > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> ----------- > >> > >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > >> > >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >> > >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > >> > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >
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