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On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 01:29:15PM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:11:32AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:21:56AM -0500, Mike Pagano wrote: |
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> > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:47:10PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > > All, |
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> > > > # |
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> > > > # Pinkie Pie discovered an issue in the futex subsystem that allows a |
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> > > > # local user to gain ring 0 control via the futex syscall. An |
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> > > > # unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the kernel (resulting |
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> > > > # in denial of service) or for privilege escalation. |
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> > > > # |
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> > > > # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-3153 |
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> > > > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.58-r2 |
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> > > > ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4.90 |
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> > > > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4.91 |
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> > > > ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.40 |
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> > > > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.41 |
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> > > > ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.12.20 |
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> > > > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.12.21 |
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> > > > ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.14.4 |
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> > > > =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.14.5 |
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> > |
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> > Mike, |
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> > |
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> > since you responded here, what do you think about this p.mask entry? |
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> > Should we keep these in the tree? |
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> William, |
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> At what point do we not care about users who have not upgraded and will |
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> miss this security message? |
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I would say that's more up to you as the maintainer, but put something |
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to the affect in the mask comment. |
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# This mask will be removed <whenever> |
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William |
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