On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 9:00 AM <patra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Justin Forbes wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 6:53 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > This does seem a bug. The big question, is does 6.1 make it go away?
> > kernel-6.1.4-200.fc37 is available in koji. The 6.0 series is end of
> > support for Fedora, and I expect 6.1.5 to be available as an update
> > this week.
>
> I believe that this bug might actually be a security vulnerability and 
> therefore might need to be treated as such, with the usual CVE dance. Look:
>
> https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/KernelBindBugIn6016
>
> As mentioned at that link, this could lead to a process unexpectedly 
> listening on 0.0.0.0 (and thus being reachable from outside) instead of 
> listening only on 127.0.0.1 or not listening at all.

CVE or not, we don't really wait around for a CVE to push updates. The
6.1.5 kernels are in updates-testing right now.
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