ACK: [CVE artful/linux trusty/linux] CVE-2018-6927 -- futex dos

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Tue Jun 5 15:45:25 UTC 2018


On 01.06.2018 02:06, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> CVE-2018-6927
> 	It was discovered that an integer overflow error existed
> 	in the futex implementation in the Linux kernel. A local
> 	attacker could use this to cause a denial of service
> 	(system crash).
> 
> Simple backports of the upstream fix follow this email.  Patches are
> provided for artful and trusty.  Other series have already recieved this
> via upstream or stable.
> 
> Proposing for SRU to artful/linux and trusty/linux.
> 
> -apw
> 
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>


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