From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.17.6
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:19:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060803071922.GO26354@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1153009253.12764.20.camel@localhost>
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 02:20:53AM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> > > This should fix the reported issue of NetworkManager dying when using
> > > the 2.6.17.5 kernel release. All users of the 2.6.17 kernel are
> > > recommended to upgrade to this kernel, as it fixes a publicly known
> > > security issue that can provide root access to any local user of the
> > > machine.
> >
> > attached is the backported "don't allow chmod()" patch. Please consider
> > including it into the next stable release. Since the 2.6.17.6 kernel is
> > no longer vulnerable against CVE-2006-3626, this has no real urgent need
> > to get out.
>
> actually attaching the patch might help ;)
Queued to -stable.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-03 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-15 19:35 Linux 2.6.17.6 Greg KH
2006-07-15 19:36 ` Greg KH
2006-07-16 0:18 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-07-16 0:20 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-08-03 7:19 ` Greg KH [this message]
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