Ack: [Oneiric CVE-2013-0871] race conditon in ptrace

Brad Figg brad.figg at canonical.com
Tue Feb 19 16:10:36 UTC 2013


On 02/19/2013 06:18 AM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> From the description:
> 
>  "A race conditon in ptrace can lead to kernel stack corruption and
>   arbitrary kernel-mode code execution."
> 
> Following this email, there are 3 patches that should fix this issue for
> Oneiric.
> 
> I did a lot of testing with this backport and although I'm pretty confident
> that I'm not introducing any regressions, a good review would be great!
> 


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