64 bit exploit

[rick]

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/09/20/0217204

Is this something well get a patch for with an update when it becomes available or do we need to take preventative measures in the meantime?

[iseletsk]

The patch was released this weekend.

http://www.cloudlinux.com/blog/clnews/22.php

Also, if you use twitter, please follow me at http://twitter.com/iseletsk
I post such updates up there.

[rick]

Thanks for the quick response.

[rick]

Seem to be having a bit of an issue with the update. Apparently one of our server guy has already been working on updating, but its hanging on

Running Transaction
Installing : kernel-headers X 1/13

Hes still working on it, but figured Id post in case this is something that anyone else has run into.

[iseletsk]

All the repositories are up and running.
Maybe something RPM/yum

If RPM itself doesn work (just do rpm -qa -- and it gets stuck, you have a problem)
do:
# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
# rpm -vv --rebuilddb

[rick]

Well it downloaded everything and its trying to do the update, but thats where its hanging, about 10 minutes now:

================================================================================

Package        Arch   Version                         Repository          Size

================================================================================

Installing:

kernel         x86_64 2.6.18-294.8.1.el5.lve0.7.33.1  cloudlinux-updates  19 M

kernel-debug   x86_64 2.6.18-294.8.1.el5.lve0.7.33.1  cloudlinux-updates  22 M

kernel-devel   x86_64 2.6.18-294.8.1.el5.lve0.7.33.1  cloudlinux-updates 5.4 M

kernel-headers x86_64 2.6.18-294.8.1.el5.lve0.7.33.1  cloudlinux-updates 1.0 M

replacing  kernel-headers.x86_64 2.6.18-294.8.1.el5.lve0.7.33

Updating:

liblve         x86_64 0.7.3-1.el5.cloudlinux          cloudlinux-updates  11 k

liblve-devel   x86_64 0.7.3-1.el5.cloudlinux          cloudlinux-updates 6.3 k

lve            x86_64 0.7.3-1.el5.cloudlinux          cloudlinux-updates 6.0 k

Removing:

kernel         x86_64 2.6.18-164.el5                  installed           87 M

kernel-devel   x86_64 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5             installed           16 M

Transaction Summary

================================================================================

Install       4 Package(s)

Upgrade       3 Package(s)

Remove        2 Package(s)

Reinstall     0 Package(s)

Downgrade     0 Package(s)

Total size: 48 M

Total download size: 19 M

Is this ok [y/N]: y

Downloading Packages:

(1/4): lve-0.7.3-1.el5.cloudlinux.x86_64.rpm             | 6.0 kB     00:00

(2/4): liblve-devel-0.7.3-1.el5.cloudlinux.x86_64.rpm    | 6.3 kB     00:00

(3/4): liblve-0.7.3-1.el5.cloudlinux.x86_64.rpm          |  11 kB     00:00

(4/4): kernel-2.6.18-294.8.1.el5.lve0.7.33.1.x86_64.rpm  |  19 MB     00:01

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Total X 10 MB/s |  19 MB     00:01

Running rpm_check_debug

Running Transaction Test

Finished Transaction Test

Transaction Test Succeeded

Running Transaction

Installing     : kernel-headers X 1/13

yum is still running however:

ps auxw | grep yum

root     12617  0.0  0.2 258336 17228 ?        SN   Jul21   0:04 /usr/bin/python -tt /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd

root     15133  1.4  1.3 342012 113304 pts/0   S+   12:15   0:22 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum update

[rick]

Ok, rpm was the issue. All good now.