qatman i am not sure if the exploit yiou are talking about is the same one..i am talking about Vmsplice

 

and this is a recent one if i m not wrong..

 

heres redhats' bugzila link

 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432251

 

and these two

 

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0009

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0010

 

and no i wasnt trying out for anything but patching up, has anyone got any distro patched properly?

 

mostly the server's i work on are either CentOS, or Fedora/Redhat

 

some of the older kernels arent affected IF patched properly, although patching is not one of my favorite linux jobs lol..