Local root exploit patched

Posted Feb 11 at 08:57 CDT by Remi in General  - 0 comment(s)

A local root exploit was announced last night (see http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/02/10/2011257.shtml). All of our CentOS5 servers were vulnerable. The exploit allowed any user of the system to become root.

We have patched all of our CentOS5 servers and they are no longer vulnerable to this exploit. In the process we had to reboot 3 of these servers to change the kernel versions: Web22, Web26 and Web27