Re: [stable] [patch 00/18] 2.6.18-stable review

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Thu Feb 22 2007 - 00:47:08 EST


Hi Greg,

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:34:45AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:55:04PM +0200, S.??a??lar Onur wrote:
> > 21 ??ub 2007 ??ar tarihinde, Greg KH ??unlar?? yazm????t??:
> > > Responses should be made by Friday February 23 00:00 UTC. Anything
> > > received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > We have still some CVEish patches in our package which maybe you want to
> > consider adding into -stable.
> >
> > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4814
> > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5749
> > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5753
> > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5823
> > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6053
> > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6054
> > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6333
> > * http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0006
>
> Do you have a pointer to the patches for these fixes anywhere?
>
> And are you sure they are all for 2.6.18? The first one above is for
> the 2.4 kernel tree :)

No, in fact the CVE description is not precise enough. Maybe we should
propose an update to Steven, I don't know how CVE descriptions are
supposed to evolve.

The patch merged in 2.4 was a backport by Hugh Dickins of Linus' 2.6 patch,
which itself was composed of three successive fixes :

2f77d107050abc14bc393b34bdb7b91cf670c250
4fb23e439ce09157d64b89a21061b9fc08f2b495
825020c3866e7312947e17a0caa9dd1a5622bafc

I attach all of them to this mail for your convenience. I noticed that
Linus recently applied other changes to mincore, though I'm not sure
they are security-related.

Hoping this helps,
Willy