Debian: kernel 2.4.19 Multiple vulnerabilities
Summary
Several serious problems have been discovered in the Linux kernel.
This update takes care of Linux 2.4.17 for the MIPS architecture. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems that will be fixed with this update:
CAN-2004-0003
A vulnerability has been discovered in the R128 drive in the Linux
kernel which could potentially lead an attacker to gain
unauthorised privileges. Alan Cox and Thomas Biege developed a
correction for this
CAN-2004-0010
Arjan van de Ven discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the
ncp_lookup function for ncpfs in the Linux kernel, which could
lead an attacker to gain unauthorised privileges. Petr Vandrovec
developed a correction for this.
CAN-2004-0109
zen-parse discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the
ISO9660 filesystem component of Linux kernel which could be abused
by an attacker to gain unauthorised root access. Sebastian
Krahmer and Ernie Petrides developed a correction for this.
CAN-2004-0177
Solar Designer discovered an information leak in the ext3 code of
Linux. In a worst case an attacker could read sensitive data such
as cryptographic keys which would otherwise never hit disk media.
Theodore Ts'o developed a correction for this.
CAN-2004-0178
Andreas Kies discovered a denial of service condition in the Sound
Blaster driver in Linux. He also developed a correction for this.
These problems are also fixed by upstream in Linux 2.4.26 and future
versions of 2.6.
The following security matrix explains which kernel versions for which
architectures are already fixed and which will be removed instead.
Architecture stable (woody) unstable (sid) remove in sid
source 2.4.19-4.woody2 2.4.25-3 2.4.19-11
mips 2.4.19-0.020911.1.woody4 2.4.25-0.040415.1 2.4.19-0.020911.8
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We recommend that you upgrade your kernel packages immediately, either
with a Debian provided kernel or with a self compiled one.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 672 9860f430fe435100c103a42c7b5dbc66
Size/MD5 checksum: 47625 cc802c42472c637de501dde07df7cec8
Size/MD5 checksum: 32000211 237896fbb45ae652cc9c5cecc9b746da
Size/MD5 checksum: 792 a21174ff774b45160cf3f714ea1ec226
Size/MD5 checksum: 1032076 96e1ae069ef39afbdae505edc6f11375
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 1783144 deaa1a0705f5f334ebbc60734b6bc2c7
Size/MD5 checksum: 25895130 f42c8c0b27e644d024e33738a5c87863
Size/MD5 checksum: 1032600 c7ec4194385c7ee8601c7f4c87490d2f
Big endian MIPS architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 3894818 a2277f0f0f386754f129bac5f9f79af9
Size/MD5 checksum: 2075552 c47eb88aa359b8b5613e24256d23ce96
Size/MD5 checksum: 2075960 a9a95f93c8dacac25dd45878b520ff37
Size/MD5 checksum: 13114 4b8f0c9fbf91dcc093ac59087b016208
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show
