[504] in RedHat Linux List
Re: more fixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Tue Oct 22 23:03:43 1996
From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 23:00:07 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <326D86E5.4D04B3C6@kodak.com> from "Cole Jones" at Oct 22, 96 09:45:57 pm
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> > 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.
> -----------
>
> Hi,
> I am currently running RedHat 4.0 with kernel 2.0.23. Do I have to
> install kernel 2.0.18 and then patch back to 2.0.23 or is there a patch
> fix that will correct any of the current kernels?
there is a patch called big-ping-patch or something at
http://www.uk.linux.org/patches/ ... I just installed it via
cat big-ping-patch |patch -p0 ... and now I'm recompiling my kernel.
Darron
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