Re: [linux-security] pentium f00f crash and IP fragment bug crash fixes...

Peter T. Breuer (ptb@it.uc3m.es)
Sun, 16 Nov 1997 00:56:13 +0100 (MET)


"A month of sundays ago Greg Alexander wrote:"
>
> these are both fixed in 2.0.32-pre4 and 2.1.63. The 2.0.32-pre4 stuff seems
> very solid, though the f00f bug fix is not proper for SMP machines yet. It
> looks like 2.0.32-pre5 fixes the f00f bug on SMP machines properly. All of
> these are available on ftp.kernel.org:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/pre-patch-2.0.32-5.gz
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/linux-2.1.63.tgz

But can we please have a foof patch ONLY please! I don't want to move
to 2.0.32 (or 2.0.31 or 2.0.30 or ..)

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