Bug 4161

Summary:	kernel update for CVE-2012-0207
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dave Hodgins <davidwhodgins>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Triaged
Version:	1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kernel	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:	4281
Bug Blocks:

Description Dave Hodgins 2012-01-16 23:48:07 CET

According to
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Linux-developers-fix-a-homemade-network-problem-1414033.html
all kernels from 2.6.36 up until 3.0.17
are subject to a denial of service attack, CVE-2012-0207.

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-01-17 01:11:06 CET

Hi, thanks for reporting this bug.
Assigned to the package maintainer.

(Please set the status to 'assigned' if you are working on it)

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2012-01-25 18:18:38 CET

The fix is added in 2.6.38.8-10.mga1 now available in updates_testing:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4281

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
Hardware: i586 => All
Depends on: (none) => 4281

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2012-01-27 23:17:09 CET

update pushed

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED