[LEDE-DEV] DirtyCOW backport

[Stijn Tintel]

On 24-10-16 03:10, Stijn Tintel wrote:
> On 24-10-16 02:37, James Feeney wrote:
>> What are thoughts about backporting the DirtyCOW patch to the Lede kernels?  I
>> did not see any mention in the Lede-dev Archives.
>>
> Most targets use kernel 4.4. As the 4.4 kernel has been updated to
> 4.4.26 on Friday [0], these targets are no longer vulnerable. I will
> update 3.18 and 4.1 ASAP, as new versions have been released upstream.
Pushed 3.18.43 and 4.1.34 + CVE-2016-5195 fixes to my staging tree:
https://git.lede-project.org/?p=lede/stintel/staging.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/kernel
If the tarballs for for 3.18.44 and 4.1.35 don't appear on kernel.org by
tomorrow, I'll push this to the main tree as-is.

Stijn