Guardian Digital Security Advisory April 28, 2004
http://www.guardiandigital.com
ESA-20040428-004
Package: kernel
Summary: Several security and bug fixes.
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
Author: Ryan W. Maple <ryan@guardiandigital.com>
Copyright 2004, Guardian Digital, Inc.