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From: Andy Mender <andymenderunix@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:42:55
Message-Id: CAHVfhufX1nJp=K9VX1yMUb4-Fsu32DXw6aUNm68qarpb=xXLbQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug by Rich Freeman
1 On 21 October 2016 at 17:04, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > > https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/wiki/VulnerabilityDetails
5 > >
6 > > Are we patched? I'm running 4.4.21-gentoo
7 > >
8 >
9 > Not yet:
10 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597624
11 >
12 > You're probably going to want to update to 4.4.26. It has been
13 > released, though it doesn't look like it is packaged in Gentoo yet.
14 > I've been running upstream's git for a while (currently on 4.4.26).
15 >
16 > --
17 > Rich
18 >
19 > Would a Gentoo .config work with the upstream "vanilla" 4.4.26 kernel?
20 I know Gentoo does some patching to the upstream sources and menuconfig has
21 additional features thereby.
22
23 ~ Andy

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Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>