Re: CVE-2005-2709 - Another local DoS in the kernel
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:48:10PM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Hi Horms and the rest of debian-kernel,
> Al Viro has found another local DoS vulnerability in the kernel; one
> can trigger an oops in sysctl. The fix is the only code change in
> 2.6.14.1 and has been assigned CVE-2005-2709.
Sadly, Manoj uploaded an untried kernel-package version to unstable, which
broke kernel builds, this is currently being worked on, but at this time there
has not been a confirmed fix yet, so it is not possible to upload packages
containign 2.6.14.1 which fix this CVE and was mentioned here a coupe of hours
ago. The patches are already in our SVN repo though, so you could try building
them yourself with the older kernel-package, or wait a bit.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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