Trustix Secure Linux Bugfix Advisory #2004-0034
Package name: kernel
Summary: Local DoS
Date: 2004-06-16
Affected versions: Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 Trustix Secure Linux
2.1 Trustix Operating System – Enterprise Server 2
Package description:
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
your Trustix Secure Linux operating system. The kernel handles the
basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation, device input and output, etc.
Problem description:
A flaw was by accident discovered by Stian Skjelstad when he was
doing some code tests during vacation. He was quite surprised when
I discovered that the code he was trying froze his machine. He
reported it to the Linux-kernel mailing list and the gcc bugzilla
2004-06-09.
See CAN-2004-0554 at http://cve.mitre.org/ for more
information.
Action:
We recommend that all systems with this package installed be
upgraded. Please note that if you do not need the functionality
provided by this package, you may want to remove it from your
system.
Location:
All Trustix Secure Linux 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:
Most updates for Trustix Secure Linux are made available for public
testing some time before release.
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/horizon/>
You may also use swup for public testing of updates:
site {
class = 0
location = "http://tsldev.trustix.org/horizon/rdfs/latest.rdf"
regexp = ".*"
}
Questions?
Check out our mailing lists:
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/support/>
Verification:
This advisory along with all Trustix 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/>
and
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/trustix-2.1/>
or directly at
<URI:http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0034>
MD5sums of the packages:
4eeda04ede3e7538c560d78db0087abf
2.1/rpms/kernel-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
f116f17ce723574940cf5653e24b189b
2.1/rpms/kernel-BOOT-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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2.1/rpms/kernel-doc-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
1da3f4c3c5489ad6441c1deb77ade460
2.1/rpms/kernel-firewall-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
33a3d2cc288d8feca38bf723a532d5fc
2.1/rpms/kernel-firewallsmp-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
2eca74fa29f9ab94400c3b660f1cb7d4
2.1/rpms/kernel-smp-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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2.1/rpms/kernel-source-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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2.1/rpms/kernel-utils-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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2.0/rpms/kernel-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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2.0/rpms/kernel-BOOT-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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2.0/rpms/kernel-doc-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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2.0/rpms/kernel-firewall-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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2.0/rpms/kernel-firewallsmp-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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2.0/rpms/kernel-smp-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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2.0/rpms/kernel-source-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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2.0/rpms/kernel-utils-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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b19ab411d3ecb4033b828a1dbd8b7d6e
e2/kernel-BOOT-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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e2/kernel-doc-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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e2/kernel-firewall-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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e2/kernel-firewallsmp-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
7ad7e859f539438ca7ada4ed0b12ea76
e2/kernel-smp-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
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e2/kernel-source-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
c340c5b408699be1d6d44a2d9b9211c8
e2/kernel-utils-2.4.26-2tr.i586.rpm
Trustix Security Team