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Re: CVE request -- kernel: perf: fix software event overflow
From: Eugene Teo <eugene () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:08:22 +0800
On 08/15/2011 09:43 PM, Petr Matousek wrote:
Hello Steve, vendors. Description: Under certain circumstances software event overflows go wrong and deadlock. Avoid trying to delete a timer from the timer callback. References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730706 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/27/337 (reproducer) https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/28/284 (fix) Upstream fix: a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233 (much larger patch that contains the hunk referenced above)
Use CVE-2011-2918. Thanks, Eugene
Current thread:
- CVE request -- kernel: perf: fix software event overflow Petr Matousek (Aug 15)
- Re: CVE request -- kernel: perf: fix software event overflow Eugene Teo (Aug 15)