Bug 875383

Summary:	CVE-2012-5517 kernel: mm/hotplug: failure in propagating hot-added memory to other nodes [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Petr Matousek <pmatouse>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	17	CC:	davej, gansalmon, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, jwboyer, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2012-11-11 14:13:51 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	875374

Description Petr Matousek 2012-11-10 21:43:39 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.

For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When creating a Bodhi update request, please use the bodhi submission link
noted in the next comment(s).  This will include the bug IDs of this
tracking bug as well as the relevant top-level CVE bugs.

Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
Bodhi notes field when available.

Please note: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora.
Only one tracking bug has been filed; please ensure that it is only closed
when all affected versions are fixed.

Reproducers, if any, will remain confidential and never be made public, unless done so by the security team.

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

Comment 1 Petr Matousek 2012-11-10 21:43:48 UTC

Please use the following update submission link to create the Bodhi
request 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.

Please also ensure that the "Close bugs when update is stable" option
remains checked.

Bodhi update submission link:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/new/?type_=security&bugs=875374,875383

Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2012-11-11 14:13:51 UTC

The fix for this (commit 08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1) went into the 3.6-rc1 release.  All Fedora branches are on 3.6 final or newer.