Bug 1322277

Summary:	kernel: Kernel panic when mounting specially crafted ext2 filesystem [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	23	CC:	gansalmon, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, jwboyer, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Release Note
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Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-04-12 12:40:59 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	1313812

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-03-30 08:02:59 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

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[bug automatically created by: add-tracking-bugs]

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-03-30 08:03:09 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=1313812,1322277

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for 

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2016-04-12 12:40:59 UTC

I'm closing this as deferred.  The upstream developers view this as the kernel behaving as it is told and that the issue needs to be handled in userspace.  If some mitigation patch does come in, we can look at backporting it at that time.