EnGarde Secure Linux Advisory: kernel

Apr 29, 2004, 03:58 (0 Talkback[s])

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Guardian Digital Security Advisory April 28, 2004
http://www.guardiandigital.com ESA-20040428-004

Package: kernel
Summary: Several security and bug fixes.

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EnGarde Secure Linux is an enterprise class Linux platform engineered to enable corporations to quickly and cost-effectively build a complete and secure Internet presence while preventing Internet threats.

OVERVIEW

This update includes Serial ATA (SATA) support, updated netfilter GRE and PPTP conntrack/NAT helpers, and a new 'forcedeth' Ethernet driver for nForce2 Ethernet support.

This update also fixes the following security issues:

• A buffer overflow in the ISO9660 filesystem (CAN-2004-0109)
• Information leaks in the XFS, ext3, and JFS filesystems (CAN-2004-0133, CAN-2004-0177, and CAN-2004-0181 respectively)
• A mostly likely non-exploitable bug in the panic() function (CAN-2004-0394)
• A potential memory leak in the do_fork() function's error path
• An integer overflow in the ip_setsockopt() function (CAN-2004-0424)

Guardian Digital products affected by this issue include:

EnGarde Secure Community 2
EnGarde Secure Professional v1.5

It is recommended that all users apply this update as soon as possible.

SOLUTION

Guardian Digital Secure Network subscribers may automatically update affected systems by accessing their account from within the Guardian Digital WebTool.

To modify your GDSN account and contact preferences, please go to:

https://www.guardiandigital.com/account/

REFERENCES

Guardian Digital's public key:
http://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/ENGARDE-GPG-KEY

Official Web Site of the Linux Kernel: http://www.kernel.org/

Guardian Digital Advisories:
http://infocenter.guardiandigital.com/advisories/

Security Contact: security@guardiandigital.com

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Author: Ryan W. Maple <ryan@guardiandigital.com> Copyright 2004, Guardian Digital, Inc.