From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2013-03-03, David W. Hodgins  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:20:47 -0500, Moe Trin  wrote:   
   >   
   >> As you say, that's what the crack staff are for.  Reading between the   
   >> lines in the ChangeLog, this doesn't sound like a "critical" update for   
   >> your systems - more of a "nice to have".   
   >   
   > The latest kernel update includes fixes that prevents a regular user   
   >  from getting root access, without the root password.   
   >   
   > It's an important security update, not a "nice to have" update.   
   >   
   > In this case, it was about a day from the update becoming publicly   
   > known, to the updates being approved by the qa team.   
   >   
   > See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9209 for details and links   
   > to the proof of concept code.   
      
   How old is this bug? Ie is it on older (2.6.x) kernels for example, or   
   3.0 kernels?   
      
      
   >   
   > Regards, Dave Hodgins   
   >   
      
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