[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.30.5-1

Andreas Radke a.radke at arcor.de
Mon Aug 17 12:39:36 EDT 2009


Am Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:37:51 +0200
schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>:

> Another upstream release, please sign off.
> 
> This also "fixes" the recent local root exploit, although (I like to 
> repeat that), it was NOT exploitable on our 2.6.30.4 kernel unless
> you explicitly ran "echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr". However,
> the .30.5 kernel is safe from this exploit even if you run that
> command.
> 
> I only built x86_64 so far, will do i686 in a minute (takes forever
> to build though). And - with our recent mirror trouble - it might
> take a while to propagate through the tubes.
> 

still alive with clean dmesg. signoff x86_64.

-Andy


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