Debian 2.1: Update Kernel Image to Address DoS Vulnerabilities Now
debian
December 13, 1999
As is widely known by now the Linux 2.2.x kernels had a problem with
parsing IP options, which made them susceptible to a DoS attack
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Summary
The Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 release for the Sun sparc architecture uses such
a kernel. If you are using such a system and haven't upgraded the
kernel yourself, we recommend that you upgrade your kernel-image package
immediately. If you have a sun4u system please use kernel-image-2.2.9-sun4u,
otherwise use the normal kernel-image-2.2.9 package.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.
Sun Sparc architecture:
sparc/kernel-headers-2.2.9_2.2.9-2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 2d8724b357c1444741f2fdd626e38615
sparc/kernel-image-2.2.9-sun4u_2.2.9-2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: bbff1631f05124fed467d833276f8d68
sparc/kernel-image-2.2.9_2.2.9-2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 7c9e15ae2c7de1d84928660b964906ad
These files will be copied into
soon.
Please note you can also use apt to al...
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