Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer) | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:11:16 -0400 |
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Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Hi, > > Here goes the third (and hopefully last) release candidate of v2.4.33. > > It contains a fix for CVE-2006-2935 (locally exploitable typo in DVD > code), ethtool oopses and an ext3 block bitmap leakage issue. > > Willy Tarreau has stepped up to maintain the mainline v2.4 tree, and > will do so starting from v2.4.34. > > He has devoted great effort to help maintenance for the past few years. > His -hotfix tree is quite popular amongst v2.4 users, for instance. > > I feel very confident in his competence for the job, knowing his good > common sense and great technical/communication skills.
Thanks to both of you, I know a number of people who are still on 2.4 due to issues with the new development model, they all depend on you for stable kernel fixes. > > Thanks Willy! > > > Summary of changes from v2.4.33-rc2 to v2.4.33-rc3 > ============================================ > > Andreas Haumer: > [PATCH-2.4] Typo in cdrom.c > > Kirill Korotaev: > EXT3: ext3 block bitmap leakage > > Marcelo Tosatti: > Change VERSION to 2.4.33-rc3 > > Willy Tarreau: > ethtool: two oopses in ethtool_set_coalesce() and ethtool_set_pauseparam() >
-- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected, and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during wildcard (glob) expansion.
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