Multiple Local Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Solution:
SGI has made available Patch 10096 and advisory (20040804-01-U), correcting this and other vulnerabilities for systems running SGI ProPack 3.
Patch 10096 is available from:
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/ProPack/3/
Please see the referenced advisory for further details regarding obtaining and applying appropriate updates.
Conectiva has released advisory CLA-2004:846 to provide Kernel updates to address this and other issues for Conectiva 8 and 9. Please see the referenced advisory for further details regarding obtaining and applying appropriate updates.
Turbolinux has released a security announcement (TLSA-2004-05-21) providing fixes that can be applied to x86 architecture based computers. Turbolinux users are advised to employ the turboupdate, turbopkg, and zabom utilities as a Superuser in order to obtain and apply appropriate fixes. Please see the referenced advisory for further details regarding obtaining and applying fixes.
Conectiva has released advisory CLSA-2004:829 to provide Kernel updates for CLEE 1.0. Please see the attached advisory for details on how to apply updates.
Debian has released advisories DSA 479-1 and DSA 482-1 as well as fixes dealing with this and other issues. Please see the attached advisory for more information and details on obtaining fixes.
Mandrake has released advisory MDKSA-2004:029 along with fixes that deal with some of the issues described in this BID. Please see the reference section for more information and details on obtaining fixes.
Debian has released an update to the advisory DSA 479-1 providing fixes that deal with the IA-32 architecture. Apparently the original fixes are broken due to a build error. Please see the attached advisory for more information and details on obtaining updated fixes.
Debian has released advisory DSA 489-1 to provide updates for Linux 2.4.17 for the PowerPC/apus and S/390 architectures. Please see the attached advisory for details on applying and obtaining fixes.
Debian has released advisory DSA 491-1 to provide updates for Linux 2.4.19 on the MIPS architecture. Please see the attached advisory for details on applying and obtaining fixes.
RedHat has released an advisory (FEDORA-2004-111) to address various issues in Fedora. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.
Debian has released an advisory (DSA 495-1) to address various issues in the Linux kernel. This advisory contains fixes for the ARM architecture. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.
Gentoo Linux has released advisory GLSA 200407-02 addressing this and other issues. Please see the referenced advisory for further information about this issue and information on upgrading packages using emerge.
Red Hat has released advisories RHSA-2004:413-07, and RHSA-2004:437-02 along with fixes to address this issue on Red Hat Linux Enterprise 2.1 and 3.0 platforms. Customers who are affected by this issue are advised to apply the appropriate updates. Customers subscribed to the Red Hat Network may apply the appropriate fixes using the Red Hat Update Agent (up2date). Please see referenced advisory for additional information.
Linux kernel 2.4.16
Linux kernel 2.4.17
Linux kernel 2.4.18
Linux kernel 2.4.19
Linux kernel 2.4.21
Linux kernel 2.4.5
Linux kernel 2.4.9
