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authorTom Wijsman <tomwij@gentoo.org>2013-09-09 19:56:13 +0000
committerTom Wijsman <tomwij@gentoo.org>2013-09-09 19:56:13 +0000
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Listed two more important security bugs in the gentoo-sources-3.8.13 mask reason.
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-rw-r--r--profiles/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--profiles/package.mask18
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/profiles/ChangeLog b/profiles/ChangeLog
index 89e3406d4ef3..00187a038cc3 100644
--- a/profiles/ChangeLog
+++ b/profiles/ChangeLog
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
# ChangeLog for profile directory
# Copyright 1999-2013 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/ChangeLog,v 1.8225 2013/09/09 10:17:17 hasufell Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/ChangeLog,v 1.8226 2013/09/09 19:56:13 tomwij Exp $
#
# This ChangeLog should include records for all changes in profiles directory.
# Only typo fixes which don't affect portage/repoman behaviour could be avoided
# here. If in doubt put a record here!
+ 09 Sep 2013; Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> package.mask:
+ Listed two more important security bugs in the gentoo-sources-3.8.13 mask
+ reason.
+
09 Sep 2013; Julian Ospald <hasufell@gentoo.org> package.mask:
revert mask wrt #483588
diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask
index 58cc8ecc4e66..7dc93b3cb3c2 100644
--- a/profiles/package.mask
+++ b/profiles/package.mask
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
####################################################################
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/package.mask,v 1.15094 2013/09/09 10:17:17 hasufell Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/package.mask,v 1.15095 2013/09/09 19:56:13 tomwij Exp $
#
# When you add an entry to the top of this file, add your name, the date, and
# an explanation of why something is getting masked. Please be extremely
@@ -106,8 +106,16 @@ dev-games/neotools
>=app-crypt/libsecret-0.16
# Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> (28 Aug 2013)
-# Gentoo sources 3.8.13 masked due to security bug #475618: CVE-2013-1059:
-# Linux Kernel Ceph NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability
+# =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13 is masked due to multiple security bugs:
+#
+# 1. Security Bug #475618: CVE-2013-1059:
+# Linux Kernel: Ceph: NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability
+#
+# 2. Security Bug #480200: CVE-2013-4205:
+# Linux Kernel: CLONE_NEWUSER local DoS
+#
+# 3. Security Bug #482896: From CVE-2013-2888 to CVE-2013-2899:
+# Linux Kernel: HID security flaws (Memory writes and leaks, NULL DoS, etc...)
#
# This kernel also contains other security bugs due to its old age (May 11).
#
@@ -123,13 +131,15 @@ dev-games/neotools
#
# For proprietary NVIDIA drivers users, we temporarily keep 3.9.11-r1 around
# as some of them experience problems with the new stable kernel 3.10.7; we aim
-# to mask it in one of the next weeks when the new branch 3.11 is out.
+# to mask it in one of the next weeks when the time is right.
#
# References:
#
# - http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-1059
# - https://secunia.com/advisories/54042/
# - https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475618
+# - https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480200
+# - https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482896
# - https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=assignee%3Asecurity%20kernel
#
=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.13