Bug 87901

Summary:	kernel 2.4.30 version bump
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) <rajiv>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	kernel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-04 06:28:40 UTC

kernel 2.4.30 has been released, please bump

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/47099/thread
http://kerneltrap.org/node/4958

important bc it contains several security fixes:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/4926

thanks

Comment 1 Rajiv Aaron Manglani (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-11 11:49:55 UTC

cc'ing security since kernel 2.4.30 includes security fixes which are
not patched in other vanilla-sources-2.4.x.

Comment 2 solar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-12 10:08:26 UTC

grsec-sources-2.4.30 is in the tree as ~arch.
Note for other bumpers of 2.4.x series.

CAN-2004-1056.patch and linux-2.4.28-random-poolsize.patch have never 
been applied to mainline.

Comment 3 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-23 04:56:45 UTC

This is covered by :

CAN-2005-0400 / bug 86258 
ext2 mkdir() directory entry random kernel memory leak

CAN-2005-0794 / bug 86783
Potential DOS in load_elf_library

CAN-2005-0750 / bug 86638
Fix af_bluetooth range checking bug, discovered by Ilja van Sprundel

CAN-2005-0815 / bug 86784
isofs: Some more defensive checks to keep corrupt isofs images from corrupting
memory/oopsing

CAN-2005-0384 / bug 82201
Potential ppp Denial of Service

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86638 ***