On 14.03.2012 23:18, Stefan Bader wrote:
> 32bit guests will crash (and 64bit guests may behave in a wrong way) for
> example by simply executing following nasm-demo-application: The reason
> seems a missing "invalid opcode"-trap (int6) for the syscall opcode "0f05",
> which is not available on Intel CPUs within non-longmodes, as also on some
> AMD CPUs within legacy-mode. (depending on CPU vendor, MSR_EFER and cpuid)
>
> Problem got introduced in 2.6.32 (so Hardy is not affected) and recently
> fixed in a 3.3-rc. For Precise a simple cherry-pick of the two patches
> works. Previous releases require a increasing amount of tweaking. Following
> this email are the patches for Lucid till Precise. Since KVM virtualization
> is not an option for ARM and neither EC2, only the master branches should
> require this. If I did not forget something.
>
> Changes tested on 32bit hosts/32bit guest for all releases and additionally
> on a 64bit host/32bit+64bit guest for Lucid.
>
> -Stefan
>
As Maverick is slowly phasing out (which I failed to realize), I kept this one
back until we get an assessment about its importance.
All other patches applied to the respective master-next branches.
- -Stefan
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APPLIED (execpt Maverick): CVE-2012-0045
