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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 23:00:58 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: crash

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:46:26PM +0200, Krzychu wrote:
> it seems that this code:
[...]
> executed by normal user can really crash our owl boxes.

Yes.

> Fix of the problem is aviable at:
> http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/24_kernel_ia32-and-x86_64-fix-fpu-state.patch.txt

Correct.

And this is one of the fixes already included in 2.4.26-ow2pre2 (it's
not public).  Do you feel it's worth releasing an -ow2 right away,
knowing that there will be more important fixes by early July and an
-ow3 will be needed?  I've been holding this incomplete set of fixes
for now...

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Alexander Peslyak <solar@...nwall.com>
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