Canonical, Red Hat, and Arch Linux have released patches that fix a vulnerability in Linux kernels 2.6.39 and above that enable attackers to gain system root access. The distro patches followed a kernel patch to fix the vulnerability, but proof-of-concept exploit code examples have already been posted.
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Sabayon 7 tries on GNOME 3.2 plus experimental ‘Fusion Kernel’
The Gentoo-based Sabayon 7.0 is now available, equipped with both an “ultra-optimized” version of the Linux 3.0 kernel and an experimental “Fusion Kernel.” Sabayon 7.0 offers a choice of GNOME 3.2, KDE 4.7, and Xfce 4.8 desktop environments, plus LibreOffice 3.4.3.2 and native support for Btrfs.
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Installing an older kernel
Hi,
I must be stupid or something, but when I installed my version of Debian I got asked in the end of the installation which kernel I wanted to use.
I choosed 3.0.0. However, I would like to go back to 2.6.x again.
Trying to install the packages, linux-image-2.6-amd64 and linux-image-amd64 gives me nothing. It just installs the packages, but I get no new kernel to boot form.
What am I doing wrong here?
I’m running wheezy…
Thanks.
Kernel.org hacked, but Linux kernel safe thanks to git
Attackers compromised several servers at kernel.org using an off-the-shelf Trojan that appears to have entered via a compromised user credential. However, the source code for the Linux kernel does not appear to have been altered thanks to its “git” distributed revision control system, say kernel maintainers.
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Copying OpenBSD Kernel from a non production to production machine
Hi All,
There are few OpenBSD 4.8 servers without compiler installed at my working place. However, sometimes there are some patches released for patching the kernel.
My question is: Can I setup a non production OpenBSD 4.8 server as a test machine with compiler installed and use it to patch the kernel and after the patching was successfull, I will copy the new kernel(with the patch installed) from the non production machine to the production machine?
Is there any impact?
Regards,
Stefan
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cego 2.5.13
Cego implements a relational and transactional database system with support for the SQL query language. The current release contains the most common database features for basic table manipulation and data retrieval. Indexes, foreign keys, views, and stored procedures are also implemented
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