crash version is outdated. Needs to import Debian version of the package
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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crash (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Stefan Bader | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Stefan Bader | ||
Quantal |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Stefan Bader | ||
Raring |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Stefan Bader |
Bug Description
Sid's version of crash is at 6.0.6 and upstream is at 6.1.0. Ubuntu version should at least follow Sid's version
SRU Justification (for Quantal and Precise):
Impact: With the current crash utility in Quantal (and Precise) it is impossible to look at dumps from recent kernels (3.5+). So Quantal cannot be used to examine dumps created in Quantal and with the rolling backport kernels we will have the same problem in Precise (12.04.2). Beside that it should be possible to use the latest LTS to work on newer dumps (IMO). Another feature of this latest release is the ability to work on dumps of PV guests produced by Xen.
Fix: Instead of trying to pick individual patches it is much simpler to push the the 6.1.0 release back into older releases. It was compiled and tested in Precise at least while working on bug reports that involved dumps and required a recent version of crash.
Testcase:
- Load and examine a dump produced from a 3.5+ kernel
- Load and examine a dump of a PV Xen guest.
CVE References
Changed in crash (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Louis Bouchard (louis-bouchard) |
status: | New → Confirmed |
tags: | added: patch |
Changed in crash (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Louis Bouchard (louis-bouchard) → Chris J Arges (christopherarges) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in crash (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Chris J Arges (christopherarges) → Louis Bouchard (louis-bouchard) |
Changed in crash (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Louis Bouchard (louis-bouchard) → Stefan Bader (stefan-bader-canonical) |
Changed in crash (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | nobody → Stefan Bader (stefan-bader-canonical) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in crash (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
assignee: | nobody → Stefan Bader (stefan-bader-canonical) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in crash (Ubuntu Raring): | |
assignee: | nobody → Stefan Bader (stefan-bader-canonical) |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
Attaching the the diff to get a Debianized 6.1.0 package which I am now using for a bit (however since this sort of fakes a Debian version it is nothing that we could upload).