[499] in RedHat Linux List
Re: more fixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Nielsen)
Tue Oct 22 22:44:05 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:37:46 -0700 (MST)
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Erik Troan wrote:
>
> The daily does of fixes for Red Hat 4.0 is now available:
>
> 1) All Linux kernels have a major bug which allows ping'ing
> them with bad frames to crash the system. This is fixed
> in the following kernels.
>
> a) Intel - kernel-2.0.18-6.i386.rpm
>
> If you are running a system based on the kernel that
> was originally installed by Red Hat 4.0, you can simply
> install this package, run /sbin/lilo, and reboot. Otherwise,
> you must download kernel-source.20.18-6.i386.rpm, upgrade
> to it, and rebuild your kernel.
Do you know if the fix has gone into Linus' sources (now up to
2.0.23/2.1.5)?
Bob
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