Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:04:52 +0900 | From | Horms <> | Subject | Re: CAN-2005-0204 and 2.4 |
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 04:56:24PM +0300, Nikos Ntarmos wrote: > Hi there. > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:30:25AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > The problem that you see is a patch that was included in 2.4.27-11 > > (the current version in sid), though it isn't built for amd64. > > > > Could you see if the following patch works for you. > > Yes it does. That's exactly what I also did to make it build, but I > didn't send in a patch as I wasn't sure that 4 (sizeof(u32)) is the > right factor for a 64-bit arch. > > > I've CCed lkml and Marcelo for their consideration. It seems to me > > that 2.4 is indeed vulnerable to CAN-2005-0204, perhaps someone can > > shed some light on this. > > My intuition agrees with yours. However, as also stated in #329355 by > fs, "the amd64 port does not support 2.4 kernels, and there are no plans > to change this", so I guess this is not-a-bug for debian/x86_64.
Well, its not a Debian bug as such, but it was an upstream bug which has now been fixed and should appear in 2.4.32. So your efforts weren't entirely in vain.
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