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Re: econet iovec


From: Eugene Teo <eugene () redhat com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:36:37 +0800

Thomas, thanks for the heads-up. Appreciated it.

On 11/15/2010 12:09 AM, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
This also raises a question of whether it's worth assigning CVEs to
every vulnerability that was fixed by a single change in the core
code.  I'm leaning towards "no".

Yeah, It wouldn't make much sense too.

Distros should backport the changes made to mitigate such issues. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/651927, and the following patches:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/253eacc070b114c2ec1f81b067d2fed7305467b0
http://git.kernel.org/linus/8acfe468b0384e834a303f08ebc4953d72fb690a

Thanks, Eugene
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