666974 – sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.150 produces empty lines in /proc/PID/status

Bug 666974 - sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.150 produces empty lines in /proc/PID/status

Summary: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.150 produces empty lines in /proc/PID/status

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers

URL:	https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+so...
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Reported:	2018-09-24 11:57 UTC by Михаил
Modified:	2019-05-16 19:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Михаил 2018-09-24 11:57:15 UTC

The CVE-2018-3639 for Xenial introduced a double newline sequence in the /proc/PID/status files. This breaks some userspace tools, such as iotop, that parse those files.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1772671

Patch https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2018-May/092723.html

Comment 1 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2019-05-16 19:17:39 UTC

This bug only affected the 4.4 based kernels. This patch has been included in 4.4 since 4.4.172.