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Subject: Re: Fix prctl privilege escalation (CVE-2006-2451)
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Gabor MICSKO <gmicsko@szintezis.hu>
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Hi Gabor,

> Already fixed since 07/06/2006:
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> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.17.y.git;a=commit;h=0af184bb9f80edfbb94de46cb52e9592e5a547b0
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.17.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=0af184bb9f80edfbb94de46cb52e9592e5a547b0;hp=52cbb7b78994ea3799f1bbb8c03bce1e2f72a271

it is fixed in the stable tree, but it is not fixed upstream. It happens
that security fixes go into the stable tree, before the enter upstream.

Regards

Marcel