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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:06:39 -0600
From: "kseifried@...hat.com" <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Stuart Henderson <stu@...cehopper.org>
Subject: Re: Qualys Security Advisory - The Stack Clash
On 06/21/2017 09:15 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2017/06/21 16:36, Solar Designer wrote:
>> Granted, they can now
>> prepare their updates within hours or days due to the work done by SUSE,
>> Red Hat, and others on the distros list, hopefully in time before
>> attacks using the Qualys findings start or become widespread, but
>> nevertheless they are at a disadvantage.
>
> People doing this might want to note that Icinga ran into problems
> with the fix in RHEL/Centos kernels when using setrlimit to restrict
> the stack size below the default.
>
> The Red Hat ticket is currently locked but there's some information at
> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13453.
Ah sorry about that, I've made
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463241
public, kernel bugs default to private and then typically get opened up
(mostly because people have a tendency to put traces/dumps with
sensitive information in them and we don't want someone accidentally
exposing their SSH host keys or whatever).
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Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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Red Hat Product Security contact: secalert@...hat.com
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