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Hi guys, |
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This is a follow up on the "IA32 Syscall Entry Point Privilege |
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Escalation" and "IA32 Emulation Stack Underflow". |
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hardened-sources 2.6.32-r18 or 2.6.34-r6 have now been fast-track |
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stabilized on amd64 arch only. Users of amd64 are encouraged to switch |
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as soon as possible. |
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Since the exploit affects only amd64, there was no need to stabilize |
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x86, ppc or ppc64 early. These will be stabilized via the usual |
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mechanism of waiting 30 days. |
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There is at least one issue with the fast-track stabilization that may |
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affect users, so a caveat is in order. Because of changes in the grsec |
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patches for kernels > 2.6.32-r9, some packages may break. This is due |
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to stricter requirements on mmap-ed pages. See ref [1]. It affects, |
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among other thing, python's import ctypes. We are working on |
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fast-tracking a fix for that, but in the mean time, amd64 users that |
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wish to continue using hardened-sources-2.6.32-r9 may due so securely |
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provided you follow the workaround discussed in ref [2]. |
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Refs: |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/329499 |
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[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326885 |
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- -- |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Developer |
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