Activity log for bug #504164

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2010-01-07 09:14:42 Sergio Tosti bug added bug
2010-01-07 09:19:25 Sergio Tosti description According to Debian Bug #559035 latest hardy kernel amd64 version is affected from same bug. this can be reproduced by launching $ for ((i = 0; i <= 100000; i++)); do exim4 -bV || break; done > /dev/null; echo "last: $i" the machine isn't affected anymore by setting $ sudo sysctl kernel/randomize_va_space=0 so the problem is process address space randomization. Here's the commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=80938332d8cf652f6b16e0788cf0ca136befe0b5 Please evaluate it, it's a serious bug. --Sergio According to Debian Bug 559035 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559035 ) latest hardy kernel amd64 version is affected from same bug. this can be reproduced by launching $ for ((i = 0; i <= 100000; i++)); do exim4 -bV || break; done > /dev/null; echo "last: $i" the machine isn't affected anymore by setting $ sudo sysctl kernel/randomize_va_space=0 so the problem is process address space randomization. Here's the commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=80938332d8cf652f6b16e0788cf0ca136befe0b5 Please evaluate it, it's a serious bug. --Sergio
2010-01-09 00:38:10 Tim Gardner nominated for series Ubuntu Hardy
2010-01-09 00:38:10 Tim Gardner bug task added linux (Ubuntu Hardy)
2010-01-09 00:38:48 Tim Gardner linux (Ubuntu Hardy): importance Undecided Medium
2010-01-09 00:38:48 Tim Gardner linux (Ubuntu Hardy): status New In Progress
2010-01-09 00:38:48 Tim Gardner linux (Ubuntu Hardy): milestone ubuntu-8.04.3
2010-01-09 00:38:48 Tim Gardner linux (Ubuntu Hardy): assignee John Johansen (jjohansen)
2010-01-10 22:02:50 Leann Ogasawara tags xen
2010-01-13 16:39:04 Andy Whitcroft tags xen kernel-series-unknown xen
2010-02-05 10:58:43 Sergio Tosti attachment added fix_random.patch http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38790389/fix_random.patch
2010-02-05 17:33:20 Kees Cook nominated for series Ubuntu Intrepid
2010-02-05 17:33:20 Kees Cook bug task added linux (Ubuntu Intrepid)
2010-02-05 17:33:20 Kees Cook nominated for series Ubuntu Jaunty
2010-02-05 17:33:20 Kees Cook bug task added linux (Ubuntu Jaunty)
2010-02-05 17:37:29 Kees Cook tags kernel-series-unknown xen
2010-02-05 17:37:36 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu Jaunty): status New Confirmed
2010-02-05 17:37:43 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu Intrepid): status New Confirmed
2010-02-05 17:38:07 Kees Cook tags hardy intrepid jaunty
2010-02-05 17:40:33 Kees Cook summary Random segfaults with linux-image-2.6.24-26-xen Random segfaults on amd64 (Hardy through Jaunty)
2010-02-05 17:43:09 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu Intrepid): status Confirmed Triaged
2010-02-05 17:43:14 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu Jaunty): status Confirmed Triaged
2010-02-05 17:43:26 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu Hardy): milestone ubuntu-8.04.3
2010-02-05 17:43:34 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu Hardy): status In Progress Triaged
2010-02-05 17:44:40 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu): status New Invalid
2010-02-05 17:44:45 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu Intrepid): importance Undecided Medium
2010-02-05 17:44:51 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu Jaunty): importance Undecided Medium
2010-02-05 17:44:58 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu Hardy): assignee John Johansen (jjohansen) Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)
2010-02-05 17:45:03 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu Intrepid): assignee Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)
2010-02-05 17:45:09 Kees Cook linux (Ubuntu Jaunty): assignee Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)
2010-02-05 22:07:17 Benjamin Drung removed subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors for universe
2010-02-08 20:46:36 Jamie Strandboge removed subscriber Ubuntu Security Sponsors Team
2010-02-17 00:34:30 Leann Ogasawara linux (Ubuntu Hardy): assignee Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) Surbhi Palande (csurbhi)
2010-02-17 00:34:45 Leann Ogasawara linux (Ubuntu Intrepid): assignee Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) Surbhi Palande (csurbhi)
2010-02-17 00:34:58 Leann Ogasawara linux (Ubuntu Jaunty): assignee Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) Surbhi Palande (csurbhi)
2010-03-04 13:17:45 Surbhi Palande linux (Ubuntu Hardy): status Triaged In Progress
2010-03-04 13:17:49 Surbhi Palande linux (Ubuntu Intrepid): status Triaged In Progress
2010-03-04 13:17:53 Surbhi Palande linux (Ubuntu Jaunty): status Triaged In Progress
2010-03-16 23:09:36 Launchpad Janitor linux (Ubuntu Jaunty): status In Progress Fix Released
2010-03-16 23:09:36 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2009-4536
2010-03-16 23:09:36 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2009-4538
2010-03-16 23:09:36 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2010-0307
2010-03-16 23:09:36 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2010-0309
2010-03-16 23:09:36 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2010-0410
2010-03-16 23:09:36 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2010-0415
2010-03-16 23:09:36 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2010-0622
2010-03-16 23:09:36 Launchpad Janitor linux (Ubuntu Intrepid): status In Progress Fix Released
2010-03-16 23:09:36 Launchpad Janitor linux (Ubuntu Hardy): status In Progress Fix Released
2010-03-16 23:28:17 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/dapper-security/linux-source-2.6.15
2010-03-17 00:07:18 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:ubuntu/dapper-updates/linux-source-2.6.15
2010-04-21 22:36:28 Kees Cook cve unlinked 2009-4536
2010-04-21 22:36:50 Kees Cook cve unlinked 2009-4538
2010-04-21 22:37:25 Kees Cook cve unlinked 2010-0307
2010-04-21 22:38:21 Kees Cook cve unlinked 2010-0309
2010-04-21 22:39:17 Kees Cook cve unlinked 2010-0410
2010-04-21 22:39:34 Kees Cook cve unlinked 2010-0415
2010-04-21 22:39:53 Kees Cook cve unlinked 2010-0622
2010-04-21 22:44:47 Kees Cook bug watch added http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559035
2010-04-21 22:44:47 Kees Cook bug task added linux-2.6 (Debian)
2010-04-22 03:12:05 Bug Watch Updater linux-2.6 (Debian): status Unknown Fix Released
2011-10-05 22:11:06 Jeremy Foshee removed subscriber Jeremy Foshee