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From: "Kevin M. Gallagher" <kevingallagher@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 01:50:32 -0700
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] CVE-2016-5195: Local privilege escalation exploit
 in Linux kernel
To: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
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Great to hear. Thanks a lot, Natanael!

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 1:38 AM, Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:53:03 -0700
> "Kevin M. Gallagher" <kevingallagher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Details:
> >
> > http://dirtycow.ninja/
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/19/860
> >
> > Proof of concept:
> > https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/blob/master/dirtyc0w.c
> >
> > I'm using Alpine Linux for a time-urgent and security-critical project
> > happening this weekend, and would really like to see this fixed. However,
> > I'm not familiar with aports or the way you build kernels in Alpine. Is
> > anyone available to update the kernel in linux-grsec in the 3.4-stable
> > branch and/or backport the patch, sometime soon?
>
> Yes. Updated kernels will be available with an hour or two. At least
> for edge and v3.4.
>
> -nc
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Great to hear. Thanks a lot, Natanael!</div><div class=3D"=
gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 1:38 AM=
, Natanael Copa <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:ncopa@alpinelinux.o=
rg" target=3D"_blank">ncopa@alpinelinux.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><block=
quote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc=
 solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=3D"">On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:53:03 -070=
0<br>
&quot;Kevin M. Gallagher&quot; &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:kevingallagher@gmail.c=
om">kevingallagher@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<br>
</span><span class=3D"">&gt; Details:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; <a href=3D"http://dirtycow.ninja/" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank=
">http://dirtycow.ninja/</a><br>
&gt; <a href=3D"https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/19/860" rel=3D"noreferrer" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/<wbr>19/860</a><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Proof of concept:<br>
&gt; <a href=3D"https://github.com/dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io/blob/master/=
dirtyc0w.c" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://github.com/dirtyco=
w/<wbr>dirtycow.github.io/blob/<wbr>master/dirtyc0w.c</a><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I&#39;m using Alpine Linux for a time-urgent and security-critical pro=
ject<br>
&gt; happening this weekend, and would really like to see this fixed. Howev=
er,<br>
&gt; I&#39;m not familiar with aports or the way you build kernels in Alpin=
e. Is<br>
&gt; anyone available to update the kernel in linux-grsec in the 3.4-stable=
<br>
&gt; branch and/or backport the patch, sometime soon?<br>
<br>
</span>Yes. Updated kernels will be available with an hour or two. At least=
<br>
for edge and v3.4.<br>
<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888"><br>
-nc<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>

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