2.6.31.4

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Oct 13 23:55:57 UTC 2009


Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 14:56 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> Stefan and I did a review of the 2.6.31.4 stable updates.  Most appear
>> to either be fairly important fixes in core code, or small but very self
>> contained updates for drivers and/or quirks and low risk.
> 
> At least two of these have CVE numbers assigned:
> 
> [...]
>> ee39c2f x86: Don't leak 64-bit kernel register values to 32-bit processes
>> 	potiential security issue
> CVE-2009-2910
> 
> [...]
>> fb0e870 appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
>> 	memory leak in non-core protocol support
> CVE-2009-2903
> 
> Ben.
> 

Ben - I picked up the CVE patches in an earlier release (2.6.31-13.44) 
on the recommendation of Kees and Leann.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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