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Thu Aug 17 00:24:25 2006 UTC (6 years, 9 months ago) by dannf
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move retired to the top level hierarchy so people can easily checkout just the active issues
1 micah 380 Candidate: CVE-2006-1066
2 dannf 55 References:
3 micah 380 Description: 2.6.8 ia64 kernel w/ PREEMPT enabled permits local DoS (oops)
4 dannf 73 Notes:
5 dannf 72 From: dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
6     To: team@security.debian.org
7     Subject: kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 - disable preempt
8     Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:57:59 -0700
9     .
10     hey security team,
11     Its likely that kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 (2.6.8-12) will be the version
12     that ships in sarge. This kernel has CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled, which has
13     at least one known issue in ptrace code that lets an unpriveleged
14     userspace process trigger an oops. This issue went away upstream by
15     2.6.9, but its unclear what actually fixed it. SuSE/RedHat disable
16     PREEMPT for ia64 (or so I'm told), so they are not affected. This same
17     test case does _not_ fail on x86, which also has PREEMPT enabled for
18     sarge.
19     .
20     This issue has been known for a while, but I waited until after d-i
21     RC3 to upload it, since it changes the ABI. This fix is in the 2.6.8-13
22     build in unstable, but the release team is blocking this kernel from
23     normal sarge propagation to keep the kernel udebs in sync.
24 micah 380 .
25     .
26     dannf> This is only a config change, so it requires no changes to
27     dannf> kernel-source-2.6.8, but I'll use the kernel-source version
28     dannf> for the pending/released tags to match the others.
29 dannf 55 Bugs:
30     upstream:
31 micah 380 linux-2.6: N/A
32 dannf 392 2.6.8-sarge-security: released (2.6.8-16sarge2)
33 dannf 72 2.4.27-sarge-security: N/A
34     2.6.8: needed
35     2.4.19-woody-security: N/A
36     2.4.18-woody-security: N/A
37     2.4.17-woody-security: N/A
38     2.4.16-woody-security: N/A
39     2.4.17-woody-security-hppa: N/A
40     2.4.17-woody-security-ia64: N/A

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