Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272042AbTGYMaA (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:30:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272043AbTGYMaA (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:30:00 -0400 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:14227 "EHLO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272042AbTGYM36 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:29:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:41:22 -0300 (BRT) From: Marcelo Tosatti X-X-Sender: marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva To: Nuno Silva Cc: lkml Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.22-pre8 In-Reply-To: <3F20A0DB.2000101@vgertech.com> Message-ID: References: <3F20A0DB.2000101@vgertech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 981 Lines: 32 On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Nuno Silva wrote: > Hi Marcelo! > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Here goes -pre8. It contains network driver updates, IEEE1394 update, a > > POSIX compliance fix introduced by the execve() security fixes during > > early -pre, amongst others. > > > > [..snip..] > > Can you, please(!!), tell me if this release fixes all the known > security problems that compromise root? :) > > There's a lot of information available and some people says that > everything is "good" in recent vanilla-preX. Others says it isn't. As far as I know, all known security problems are fixed. All security fixes from -ac are in mainline. So if anyone knows any security problem which is not fixed yet, please inform me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/