[kernel] r11386 - in dists/etch/linux-2.6/debian: . patches/bugfix patches/series

Dann Frazier dannf at alioth.debian.org
Mon May 12 21:56:25 UTC 2008


Author: dannf
Date: Mon May 12 21:56:23 2008
New Revision: 11386

Log:
merge 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch4

Added:
   dists/etch/linux-2.6/debian/patches/bugfix/fcntl_setlk-close-race.patch
      - copied unchanged from r11385, /releases/linux-2.6/2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch4/debian/patches/bugfix/fcntl_setlk-close-race.patch
   dists/etch/linux-2.6/debian/patches/series/18etch4
      - copied unchanged from r11385, /releases/linux-2.6/2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch4/debian/patches/series/18etch4
Modified:
   dists/etch/linux-2.6/debian/changelog

Modified: dists/etch/linux-2.6/debian/changelog
==============================================================================
--- dists/etch/linux-2.6/debian/changelog	(original)
+++ dists/etch/linux-2.6/debian/changelog	Mon May 12 21:56:23 2008
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   * 3w-xxxx: Fix data corruption on em64t systems w/ > 2GB of memory
     (closes: #464923).
-  * Merge in changes from 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch[2,3]
+  * Merge in changes from 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch[2-4]
   * Add missing locking for the dnotify-race fix that was included in
     the upstream commit
 
@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@
 
  -- dann frazier <dannf at debian.org>  Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:22:55 -0600
 
+linux-2.6 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch4) stable-security; urgency=high
+
+  * bugfix/fcntl_setlk-close-race.patch
+    [SECURITY] Fix an SMP race to prevent reordering of flock updates
+    and accesses to the descriptor table on close().
+    See CVE-2008-1669
+
+ -- dann frazier <dannf at debian.org>  Wed, 07 May 2008 15:56:31 -0600
+
 linux-2.6 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch3) stable-security; urgency=high
 
   * Wrap added code in bugfix/dnotify-race-avoid-abi-change.patch in



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