reassign 280492 kernel-image-2.4.27-alpha thanks On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:21:47PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Horms wrote: > [snip] > > The patch from ultramonkey.org above was fished out of > > a Red Hat Kernel RPM (by me). It still seems to be used > > in their latest kernel (27.0.1.EL.um.1), so I am going to apply that. > > But for the other architectures (mips and alpha) there does not > > seem to be a fix available. > > Mips uses the generic version, the non-padding assembly one does only > to_user/from_user, which is uncritical. > > > To be honest I am pretty dubious about the security tag > > on this bug, I don't believe there is a known exploit > > and at best the bug seems to be regarded as being minor. > > Would it be acceptable to remove the security tag? > > It could lead to involuntary disclosure of sensitive data. > > > Would you be happy to have the bug closed by application of the patch > > you suggested? Or do you want to hold it open because of the > > outstanding mips and alpha problem? I am pretty tempted to mark it as > > upstream and wontfix and reprioritise as wishlist if that is the case. > > Perhaps splitting and reassigning to the relevant misps and alpha > > kernel-image packages. > > AFAICS reassigning to alpha is ok.
Done :) -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]