Bug 343535 – Please mark =sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.32-r23 stable for security bug

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Anthony Basile 2010-10-31 16:12:25 UTC]

ppc and ppc64, please consider fast track stabilization of
=sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.32-r23 which addresses a local root escalation
exploit.  See bug #341801.

This replaces STABLEREQ bug #341915 for hardened-sources-2.6.32-r22 which would not stabilize on ppc and ppc64 due to a minor syntax error in arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c introduced by one of the patches.

[Comment 1 Anthony Basile 2010-10-31 16:17:34 UTC]

I've tested on a dual core G5:

gentoo-ppc64 ~ # uname -a
Linux gentoo-ppc64 2.6.32-hardened-r23 #1 SMP Sat Oct 30 23:55:59 EDT 2010 ppc64 PPC970, altivec supported PowerMac7,2 GNU/Linux


With the blessings of the ppc64 team, may I go ahead and mark it stable?

[Comment 2 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2010-11-02 00:18:07 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> With the blessings of the ppc64 team, may I go ahead and mark it stable?

Go for it.

[Comment 3 Anthony Basile 2010-11-02 00:37:25 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > With the blessings of the ppc64 team, may I go ahead and mark it stable?
> 
> Go for it.
> 

done

[Comment 4 Anthony Basile 2010-12-14 21:46:06 UTC]

This will not stabilize on ppc.  Closing.