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Message-ID: <20120516210932.GD3423@cmpxchg8b.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 23:09:32 +0200
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com>
To: Adam Zabrocki <pi3@....com.pl>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: The story of the Linux kernel 3.x...

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:49:40PM +0200, Adam Zabrocki wrote:
> Hi Tavis,
> 
> Yes this is stock kernels and yes you must believe it is so simple mistake ;)
> All systems was installed as VM in default installation using official ISOs.
> 
> And of course this is configuration mistake not kernel problem(!) - my mistake
> if I wasn't clear in the write-up.

Well, you weren't clear, you didn't mention distribution or
CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO once, which were the only important pieces of
information.

But we're making progress, we now know that opensuse on x86 is broken.

> 
> so the latest update has this fix but still official ISO has old kernel. Fix was applied
> in March/April. So again _sock kernels_ have/had so simple mistake ;)
> 

Apparently so. Originally you said Gentoo, Fedora 16 and Ubuntu. Can you
confirm that you were wrong and it is just a SuSE ia32 problem?

Tavis

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