Re: [GIT PULL] viafb security fix

From: Florian Tobias Schandinat
Date: Thu Sep 16 2010 - 10:31:57 EST


Jonathan Corbet schrieb:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:20:10 +0200
Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@xxxxxx> wrote:

It contains a single patch to initialize the memory before it is copied to userspace. As this issue could be a security flaw it would be good to have this patch in the next release.

This one seems worth directing toward the stable tree as well.

True, the author did CC stable@xxxxxxxxxx so I guess it should be okay.
Sorry for not making that clear in the patch itself.


Thanks,

Florian Tobias Schandinat

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