Re: [bitfolk] Local user privilege escalation, kernel 3.3 an…

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Author: Andreas Olsson
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Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Local user privilege escalation, kernel 3.3 and beyond
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013, at 7:40, Andreas Olsson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013, at 7:17, Andy Smith wrote:
> > No, not sure; I was only going by:
> >
> >     http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1749-1/

> >
> > but I see that whilst it mentions 12.04, it also says Quantal (which
> > is 12.10).
>
> True, that being the Ubuntu 12.10 kernel backported to Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> So while Ubuntu 12.04 isn't affected by default, I guess it can be.


Also appears that a fresh install based on the Ubuntu 12.04.2 point
release will get that 3.5 kernel by default.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuServer#PrecisePangolin.2BAC8-ReleaseNotes.2BAC8-CommonInfrastructure.Ubuntu_Kernel_3.5.0-23.35

//Andreas