Null pointers, one month later [LWN.net]

Null pointers, one month later

Posted Aug 18, 2009 16:10 UTC (Tue) by nirik (subscriber, #71)
Parent article: Null pointers, one month later

"As of this writing, no other distributors have fixed this problem (though Mandriva's update
showed up just before publication). "

Fedora Updated F-10/F-11 this weekend...

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8684
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-8647

Granted this is not a fix for all bugs of this kind, but at least the obvious known ones right
now.

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Fedora updates

Posted Aug 18, 2009 17:09 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Indeed, the article points out that Fedora issued updates on the 15th, beaten only by (one of) Debian's updates. Am I missing something? (And they've not fixed them all; Fedora in permissive mode still lets the zero page be mapped.)

Fedora updates

Posted Aug 18, 2009 17:30 UTC (Tue) by nirik (subscriber, #71) [Link]

Indeed. :(

Sorry, should know better than to try and post before the first cup of coffee. ;)