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Local root exploit on openSUSE 10.2/10.3
Posted on 11 February 2008.
Marcus Meissner from the SUSE security team sent the following to the opensuse-security-announce mailing list:
As you are undoubtly aware a new local root exploit has been discovered on the weekend and reported to a wide audience.
The CVE identifier is CVE-2008-0600.
The problem affects only kernels 2.6.17 and newer, so it affects only following products:Updates are in preparation for openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3 and will hopefully be released Tuesday morning German time.
- openSUSE 10.2 (2.6.18.x kernel)
- openSUSE 10.3 (2.6.22.x kernel)
- Security for Android applications
- Gmail phishing campaign is under way
- Trend Micro launches Titanium 2011 security software
- NSA Director says citizens' privacy will never be compromised
- International variations in online threat perception
