[kernel-sec-discuss] r1607 - active

Moritz Muehlenhoff jmm at alioth.debian.org
Mon Nov 16 23:45:35 UTC 2009


Author: jmm
Date: 2009-11-16 23:45:35 +0000 (Mon, 16 Nov 2009)
New Revision: 1607

Modified:
   active/CVE-2009-3640
Log:
kvm issue doesn't affect Lenny


Modified: active/CVE-2009-3640
===================================================================
--- active/CVE-2009-3640	2009-11-16 23:43:55 UTC (rev 1606)
+++ active/CVE-2009-3640	2009-11-16 23:45:35 UTC (rev 1607)
@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@
  http://git.kernel.org/linus/88c808fd42b53a7e01a2ac3253ef31fef74cb5af
 Notes:
  kvm support introduced in 2.6.25
+ jmm> The 2.6.26 has the code in a different file, in which is was still
+ jmm> guarded for APIC. I've send Avi an email and he confirmed that
+ jmm> older kernels are not affected
 Bugs:
 upstream: released (2.6.32-rc1) [88c808fd42b53a7e01a2ac3253ef31fef74cb5af], released (2.6.31.2) [c3443b436a0767cbc0d4ab405f8fa13fb34bd56c]
 linux-2.6: released (2.6.31-1)
 2.6.18-etch-security: N/A "no kvm"
 2.6.24-etch-security: N/A "no kvm"
-2.6.26-lenny-security: ignored (2.6.26-19lenny2) "unclear if affected, code has changed a lot"
+2.6.26-lenny-security: N/A




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