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

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Mon Aug 17 13:02:29 EDT 2009


Thomas Bächler schrieb:
> 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.
> 

i686 is up, but untested, I have no machine that runs a native i686 system.

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