Re: CAN-2005-0204 and 2.4

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:56:24PM +0300, Nikos Ntarmos wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:30:25AM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > The problem that you see is a patch that was included in 2.4.27-11
> > (the current version in sid), though it isn't built for amd64.
> > 
> > Could you see if the following patch works for you.
> 
> Yes it does. That's exactly what I also did to make it build, but I
> didn't send in a patch as I wasn't sure that 4 (sizeof(u32)) is the
> right factor for a 64-bit arch.
> 
> > I've CCed lkml and Marcelo for their consideration.  It seems to me
> > that 2.4 is indeed vulnerable to CAN-2005-0204, perhaps someone can
> > shed some light on this.
> 
> My intuition agrees with yours. However, as also stated in #329355 by
> fs, "the amd64 port does not support 2.4 kernels, and there are no plans
> to change this", so I guess this is not-a-bug for debian/x86_64.

Well, its not a Debian bug as such, but it was an upstream
bug which has now been fixed and should appear in 2.4.32.
So your efforts weren't entirely in vain.

-- 
Horms
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