From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org>,
Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] [PATCH] Update in-kernel zlib routines
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:11:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050812001124.GG7762@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3acjodnwb.fsf@telia.com>
* Peter Osterlund (petero2@telia.com) wrote:
> Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> writes:
> > a) http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/1999-06/msg00183.html
>
> Why does this 6 year old bug have to be fixed in the 2.6.12 stable
> series? Doesn't the patch violate this stable series rule?
>
> - It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a
> problem..." type thing.)
>
> Maybe the motivation was just missing from the patch description?
These can manifest as possible overflow (1st one, given CAN-2005-2458),
or NULL deref (2nd one given CAN-2005-2459), which could have possible
security consequences.
thanks,
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-12 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-11 22:54 [patch 0/8] -stable review Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 1/8] [PATCH] sys_set_mempolicy() doesnt check if mode < 0 Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 2/8] [PATCH] Fix SRAT for non dual core AMD systems Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 3/8] [PATCH] x86_64: Fixing smpboot timing problem Chris Wright
2005-08-11 23:33 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-11 23:43 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-12 2:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-08-12 4:26 ` [PATCH] x86_64: Fix apicid versus cpu# confusion Eric W. Biederman
2005-08-12 5:51 ` yhlu
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 4/8] [PATCH] Update in-kernel zlib routines Chris Wright
2005-08-12 0:01 ` Peter Osterlund
2005-08-12 0:11 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 5/8] Check input buffer size in zisofs Chris Wright
2005-08-12 1:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-08-12 1:16 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 6/8] CAN-2005-2098 Error during attempt to join key management session can leave semaphore pinned Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 7/8] CAN-2005-2099 Destruction of failed keyring oopses Chris Wright
2005-08-11 22:54 ` [patch 8/8] [PATCH] Module per-cpu alignment cannot always be met Chris Wright
2005-08-22 6:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
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