[Lustre-discuss] Lustre 1.8.4 with new kernel 2.6.18-194.11.4

Brian J. Murrell brian.murrell at oracle.com
Tue Sep 21 12:25:01 PDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 13:05 -0500, Mike Hanby wrote: 
> Are there any plans to build new Lustre 1.8.4 patched kernel packages for EL5 kernel 2.6.18-194.11.4
> 
> This kernel has the patch that prevents the much talked about privilege escalation CVE-2010-3081:
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0704.html

Without commenting one way or the other about whether we will produce a
1.8.4.1 to deal with this kernel issue (because I don't know), I'd ask
do you have other (i.e. network) services or non-privileged user
accounts on your Lustre servers?

b.

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