Bug 812183 - CVE-2011-4621 kernel: tight loop and no preemption can cause system stall [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2011-4621 kernel: tight loop and no preemption can cause system stall [fe...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 16
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2011-4621
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Reported: 2012-04-13 01:40 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2012-04-13 12:47 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-04-13 12:47:59 UTC
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2012-04-13 01:40:06 UTC
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Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2012-04-13 12:47:59 UTC
This was fixed with upstream commit f26f9aff6aaf67e9a430d16c266f91b13a5bff64.  That is contained in the 2.6.37 kernel.  All Fedora branches are using kernels newer than 2.6.37.


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