[VIM] amusing Linux Kernel changelog message
security curmudgeon
jericho at attrition.org
Thu Jan 5 03:26:36 EST 2006
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.15
commit 8f493d797bc1fe470377adc9d8775845427e240e
Author: Andi Kleen <ak at suse.de>
Date: Tue Jan 3 00:07:28 2006 +0100
[PATCH] Make sure interleave masks have at least one node set
Otherwise a bad mem policy system call can confuse the interleaving
code into referencing undefined nodes.
Originally reported by Doug Chapman
I was told it's CVE-2005-3358
(one has to love these security people - they make everything sound
important)
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