Hi Greg,

> > This should fix the reported issue of NetworkManager dying when using
> > the 2.6.17.5 kernel release.  All users of the 2.6.17 kernel are
> > recommended to upgrade to this kernel, as it fixes a publicly known
> > security issue that can provide root access to any local user of the
> > machine.
> 
> attached is the backported "don't allow chmod()" patch. Please consider
> including it into the next stable release. Since the 2.6.17.6 kernel is
> no longer vulnerable against CVE-2006-3626, this has no real urgent need
> to get out.

actually attaching the patch might help ;)

Regards

Marcel