From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964831AbXAHVtK (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:49:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964893AbXAHVtK (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:49:10 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:3436 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964831AbXAHVtJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Jan 2007 16:49:09 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:49:10 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16.37 Message-ID: <20070108214910.GD6167@stusta.de> References: <200701070337_MC3-1-D79B-2928@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200701070337_MC3-1-D79B-2928@compuserve.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 03:35:21AM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > In-Reply-To: <20070104222517.GL20714@stusta.de> > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 23:25:17 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > There's already a CVE number for > > "i386: save/restore eflags in context switch". > > > > Are there also CVE numbers for the equivalent x86_64 patch and > > "x86_64: fix ia32 syscall count"? > > Sorry, my Web access is broken for now so I can't check, but I believe > that CVE number is for a different, older problem. > > So AFAIK there are no CVE numbers for anything I sent (but there > probably should be.) Generic Linux kernel developers don't have > a CVE representative, so we depend on vendors to assign numbers > and sometimes they don't. I asked on vendor-sec and got CVE-2006-5755 for the x86_64 equivalent of CVE-2006-5173, but none for the syscall count issue. The latter is IMHO OK since "local user can spam syslog" is really borderline - there are simply too many DoS possibilities for local users. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed