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

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 19:04:16 EDT 2009


On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
>

signoff i686


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