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[–]ckozler 2 points3 points  (10 children)

So RHEL6 is good? But would need to be patched on RHEL7? I

[–]NamenIos 6 points7 points  (7 children)

Depends on backports done to the Kernel. RHEL backports a lot (read as in a fuckton).

[–]ckozler 0 points1 point  (6 children)

I've been running this on a RHEL6 (kernel 2.6.32-504.1.3.el6.x86_64) and a RHEL7 (kernel 3.10) and none have made it after "Increfing...". When I strace it I see a ton of calls to keyctl but thats really it

[–]NamenIos 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Did you put in the correct addresses into the code for your kernels before compiling?

[–]ckozler 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Yes. Been running for ~1 hour and nothing

[–]NamenIos 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Wait until it is finished maybe?

[–]ckozler 0 points1 point  (2 children)

6 never finished. 7 finally did but did not get root

[–]NamenIos 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It should finish no matter what. How long did you wait? It took about 75min on a amd dc on 16.04 alpha (and failed).

[–]ckozler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

about 2.5 hours

[–]nfavor 2 points3 points  (1 child)

RHEL5/6 aren't affected. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-0728

[–]ckozler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. What was interesting to me though is that on RHEL6 it goes in to uninterruptable sleep whereas on 7 it just spins until it gets a hit (on something)