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Re: CVE request - kernel: untangle the do_mremap() mess
From: Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:19:59 -0500 (EST)
----- "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Eugene Teo wrote:Anyway, Al summarised the mess here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-arch&m=126004438008670&w=2 And the pile of upstream commits were meant to address the problems described AFAIK. It will probably make more sense to associate all these related commits to just one CVE name.I defer to Josh on this, but in a series of patches that is referred to as "mremap/mmap mess" in some linux-kernel subject lines, for which a specialist like Eugene is not entirely certain about, in which some of the patches are assembly-level changes for individual architectures, and where few of the patch diffs make it clear what the underlying problem was - we could collectively spend a week of labor trying to figure everything out from a purist CVE perspective, or anchor on a single series of commits that are hopefully attached to a single kernel RC or minor version release. I suspect the latter would be more helpful to the general CVE consumer community, so my recommendation is for a single CVE, assuming that all of these patches make it into a single kernel update.
Let's use CVE-2010-0291 for this one. Thanks. -- JB
Current thread:
- CVE request - kernel: untangle the do_mremap() mess Eugene Teo (Jan 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: CVE request - kernel: untangle the do_mremap() mess Josh Bressers (Jan 19)
- Re: CVE request - kernel: untangle the do_mremap() mess Eugene Teo (Jan 19)
- Re: CVE request - kernel: untangle the do_mremap() mess Greg KH (Jan 19)
- Re: CVE request - kernel: untangle the do_mremap() mess Steven M. Christey (Jan 19)
- Re: CVE request - kernel: untangle the do_mremap() mess Greg KH (Jan 20)
- Re: CVE request - kernel: untangle the do_mremap() mess Josh Bressers (Jan 20)
- Re: CVE request - kernel: untangle the do_mremap() mess Marcus Meissner (Jan 21)
- Re: CVE request - kernel: untangle the do_mremap() mess Eugene Teo (Jan 19)