On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:23:27PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > I'd suggest getting Axel's RPM from atrpms... that's what
> > I just did for my home system. :) It's easy enough
> > for us to spin one, but now that Axel is doing this, I'm
> > happy to point over there...
>
> I still can't find any updated kernel from Axel's atrpms.
> The kernels there seems all to be based on RedHats 2.4.20-20.x
> without any mention of extra patches for the do_brk().
>
> I'm a bit disappointed that SGI isn't more closely following up on
> security patches or redhat errata kernels. If it's "easy enough",
> why not just do it, and stop pushing a kernel with a serious security
> vulnerability from the project home page?
Maybe cause you can very easily build your own 2.4.23-xfs with the patch
that SGI already provides?
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