Re: Security holes in 2.4.25?

2004-04-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:16:28PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: With the rash of security gaffs in the kernel related to mmap and mremap, does it make anyone else nervous to see the following in the changelog for 2.4.26: o mremap NULL pointer dereference fix If this was a security

Re: Security holes in 2.4.25?

2004-04-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:16:28PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: With the rash of security gaffs in the kernel related to mmap and mremap, does it make anyone else nervous to see the following in the changelog for 2.4.26: o mremap NULL pointer dereference fix If this was a security

Re: Security holes in 2.4.25?

2004-04-14 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:16:28PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: With the rash of security gaffs in the kernel related to mmap and mremap, does it make anyone else nervous to see the following in the changelog for 2.4.26: o mremap NULL pointer dereference fix If this was a security

Security holes in 2.4.25?

2004-04-14 Thread Micah Anderson
With the rash of security gaffs in the kernel related to mmap and mremap, does it make anyone else nervous to see the following in the changelog for 2.4.26: o mremap NULL pointer dereference fix If this was a security concern, would it be noted in the changelog? Additionally, the 2.4.25 kernel

Re: Security holes in 2.4.25?

2004-04-14 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:16:28PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote: With the rash of security gaffs in the kernel related to mmap and mremap, does it make anyone else nervous to see the following in the changelog for 2.4.26: o mremap NULL pointer dereference fix If this was a security