[arch-general] Kernel Rootexploit

[Moritz Rudert]

 On 09/17/2010 05:48 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 17.09.2010 17:39, schrieb Moritz Rudert:
>>  Hi everybody,
>> unfortunately today a new root exploit appeared.
>>
>> Look at: http://sota.gen.nz/compat2/
>>
>> After some tests I can say: It works on Archlinux and Ubuntu, but not on
>> debian.
>>
>> The "bugfix" found on http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Sep/273
>> does not work on Arch and Ubuntu.
> There's actually two holes with two exploits. This workaround is for the
> 'compat1' exploit - which doesn't work on Arch, unlike compat2, which
> works. If I understand this right, the following three patches fix the
> problems:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=36d001c70d8a0144ac1d038f6876c484849a74de
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff&h=c41d68a513c71e35a14f66d71782d27a79a81ea6
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=eefdca043e8391dcd719711716492063030b55ac
>
> I am building a new 64 Bit kernel26 right now, but I don't know when I
> can push this to the repositories, hopefully some time tonight.
>
Please also update kernel26-lts.

Thanks
Moritz <helios> Rudert