A privilege escalation flaw in udev

Posted Apr 22, 2009 18:28 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: A privilege escalation flaw in udev by pheldens
Parent article: A privilege escalation flaw in udev

Upgrading udev should not cause any downtime.

Posted Apr 22, 2009 19:16 UTC (Wed) by pranith (subscriber, #53092) [Link] (2 responses)

doesnt udevd keep track of all the devices it created??

Posted Apr 22, 2009 21:12 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

Maybe, but none that I know would be relevant to interruption like upgrade.

Posted Apr 22, 2009 21:46 UTC (Wed) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]

yes but it does that in a tiny database in /dev ... so persistent between udev restarts...

Posted Apr 23, 2009 7:03 UTC (Thu) by jabby (guest, #2648) [Link]

so, no reboot is necessary for the kernel to use the new udev?