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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200308-01
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          PACKAGE : gentoo-sources
          SUMMARY : multiple vulnerabilities
             DATE : 2003-08-14 12:16 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6
              CVE : CAN-2003-0244 CAN-2003-0246 CAN-2003-0462

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- - quotes from CVE:

"The route cache implementation in Linux 2.4, and the Netfilter IP 
conntrack module, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service 
(CPU consumption) via packets with forged source addresses that cause a 
large number of hash table collisions."

"The ioperm system call in Linux kernel 2.4.20 and earlier does not 
properly restrict privileges, which allows local users to gain read or 
write access to certain I/O ports."

"A race condition in the way env_start and env_end pointers are 
initialized in the execve system call and used in fs/proc/base.c on 
Linux 2.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash)."

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources upgrade to gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r6 as follows

emerge sync
emerge gentoo-sources
emerge clean

After that, compile, install and reboot your computer to complete
the upgrade.

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