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Summary of changes from v2.6.11.3 to v2.6.11.4
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<paulus@au1.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] CAN-2005-0384: Remote Linux DoS on ppp servers
	
	Martin Schulze writes:
	
	> Ben Martel and Stephen Blackheath have discovered a denial-of-service attack
	> that a client of pppd can make that can hang the server machine.  The bug is
	> in the Linux kernel 2.6 (tested on 2.6.9), but it looks like it also exists
	> in the 2.4 series.
	
	Yes, this is my bug. :(
	
	I would just do this instead:
	
	Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
	Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

<akpm@osdl.org>
	[PATCH] use strncpy in get_task_comm
	
	From: Prasanna Meda <pmeda@akamai.com>
	
	Set_task_comm uses strlcpy, so get_task_comm must use strncpy.
	
	Signed-Off-by: Prasanna Meda <pmeda@akamai.com>
	Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
	Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
	Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

<gregkh@suse.de>
	Linux 2.6.11.4






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