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Immunix OS Security Advisory: kernel

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 28, 2001

Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:04:12 -0800
From: Greg KH greg@WIREX.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: Immunix OS Security update for kernel


        Immunix OS Security Advisory

Packages updated:       kernel
Affected products:      Immunix OS 6.2, 7.0-beta, and 7.0
Bugs Fixed:             immunix/1512
Date:                   March 26, 2001
Advisory ID:            IMNX-2001-70-010-01
Author:                 Greg Kroah-Hartman greg@wirex.com

Description:

The 2.2.19 kernel release fixes numerous security problems
including the ptrace/execve race condition bug that was reported by
Wojciech Purczynski (see http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/171708
for more information about this.)

This kernel release also includes a number of improvements over
the previous Immunix kernel package, including (but not limited
to)
– improved USB support
– improved IPMasq support
– IPV6 support
– numerous VM improvements
– SubDomain improvements (see http://immunix.org/subdomain.html ) –
SubDomain improvements (see http://immunix.org/subdomain.html
)

Package names and locations:

Precompiled binary packages for Immunix 6.2 are available
at:

http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/kernel-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/kernel-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i586.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/kernel-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i686.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/kernel-BOOT-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i586.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i686.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/kernel-source-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/RPMS/kernel-utils-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm

Source package for Immunix 6.2 is available at:

http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.src.rpm

Precompiled binary packages for Immunix 7.0-beta and 7.0 are
available at:

http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/kernel-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/kernel-2.2.19-3_imnx.i586.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/kernel-2.2.19-3_imnx.i686.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/kernel-BOOT-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/kernel-doc-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_imnx.i586.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_imnx.i686.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/kernel-source-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm


http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/kernel-utils-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm

Source package for Immunix 7.0-beta and 7.0 is available at:

http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/SRPMS/kernel-2.2.19-3_imnx.src.rpm

md5sums of the packages:
c19e518433918be4ca5576796d9b73cc kernel-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm
8432993325b8fffba556818299803cb4 kernel-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i586.rpm
4a5ce5c5a78f240bac878769c048bee0 kernel-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i686.rpm
651897973608892cf71143a2cfe69446 kernel-BOOT-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm
ce7bad71ee8776511a795719941fbe40 kernel-doc-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm
c77cb2fc41146f2ff389b4b301018c6f kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm
31283ab133678f219e94ea4eda2654b5 kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm
fdac62540078baf1eca7b4d7c179b06e kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i586.rpm
09e31844a8cb46edf1ecc55f135522bb kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i686.rpm
ce6be81e69b5cbc32b9950aff70db7a9 kernel-source-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm
b943d12fd4d4862543b3d738b7943df8 kernel-utils-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.i386.rpm
2cae22a95043564cd1f704f751e0533c kernel-2.2.19-3_6.x_imnx.src.rpm

0a9531662084c92d5af3b34f571a48d9 kernel-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm
c3b34cdfce45e88e2095c5f40825055a kernel-2.2.19-3_imnx.i586.rpm
a3af4a5a93e5a1c4da200a8aef67ca94 kernel-2.2.19-3_imnx.i686.rpm
9541e63fd494283843b93130c80d4123 kernel-BOOT-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm
6e586fc9879d495f63cd09ac670140c4 kernel-doc-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm
bd9c446f611ef8f2ee17d94739d132a2 kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm
4936c9f150cc7f760e1a50d7a722b402 kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm
b38940a69056e726f1ff6ca6996f09a6 kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_imnx.i586.rpm
02800be99ad80b5329a5ba3edff78446 kernel-smp-2.2.19-3_imnx.i686.rpm
bc02ed20d0bac14791eab4faa0bf7ee4 kernel-source-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm
efc5c33d82595ad9ec5f5103b40c4ae8 kernel-utils-2.2.19-3_imnx.i386.rpm
b35f92425d4bcb2adf720dffb911d627 kernel-2.2.19-3_imnx.src.rpm

Online version of all Immunix 6.2 updates and advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/

Online version of all Immunix 7.0-beta updates and
advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0-beta/updates/

Online version of all Immunix 7.0 updates and advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/

NOTE:
Ibiblio is graciously mirroring our updates, so if the links above
are slow, please try:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/immunix/

or one of the many mirrors available at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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