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Problem description:
This update fixes an issue related to bounds checking in the do_brk() function in the Linux kernel versions 2.4.22 and previous.

This issue is known to be exploitable gaining root privileges.

CVE has assigned the name CAN-2003-0961 to this issue.

Action:
We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded.

Location:
All TSL updates are available from
<URI:http://http.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/> <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/>

About Trustix Secure Linux:
Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to date from day one using swup, the automated software updater.

Automatic updates:
Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically installed using 'swup --upgrade'.

Public testing:
These packages have been available for public testing for some time. If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the tsl-discuss mailinglist.
The testing tree is located at
<URI:http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/>

You may also use swup for public testing of updates:

  site {
      class = 0
      location = "http://tsldev.trustix.org/cloud/rdfs/latest.rdf"
      regexp = ".*"
  }

Questions?
Check out our mailing lists:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/support/>

Verification:
This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL sign key. This key is available from:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/TSL-SIGN-KEY>

The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/trustix-2.0/> or directly at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/misc/2003/TSL-2003-0046-kernel.asc.txt>

MD5sums of the packages:

TSL Security Team