Debian alert: New Linux 2.4.18 packages fix local root exploit (i386)

Posted by dave on Apr 15, 2004 7:18 AM EDT
Mailing list; By joey@infodrom.org (Martin Schulze)
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Several serious problems have been discovered in the Linux kernel. This update takes care of Linux 2.4.18 for the i386 architecture. This advisory replaces the i386 part of DSA 479-1 (except for the i386bf part). An unfortunate build error caused some of the kernel packages in DSA 479-1 to be broken.

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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 479-2 [e-mail:security@debian.org] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 14th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Package : kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386 Vulnerability : several vulnerabilities Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0003 CAN-2004-0010 CAN-2004-0109 CAN-2004-0177 CAN-2004-0178

Several serious problems have been discovered in the Linux kernel. This update takes care of Linux 2.4.18 for the i386 architecture. This advisory replaces the i386 part of DSA 479-1 (except for the i386bf part). An unfortunate build error caused some of the kernel packages in DSA 479-1 to be broken. They are updated with this advisory. For completeness below is the original advisory text:

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems that will be fixed with this update:

CAN-2004-0003

A vulnerability has been discovered in the R128 drive in the Linux kernel which could potentially lead an attacker to gain unauthorised privileges. Alan Cox and Thomas Biege developed a correction for this

CAN-2004-0010

Arjan van de Ven discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the ncp_lookup function for ncpfs in the Linux kernel, which could lead an attacker to gain unauthorised privileges. Petr Vandrovec developed a correction for this.

CAN-2004-0109

zen-parse discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ISO9660 filesystem component of Linux kernel which could be abused by an attacker to gain unauthorised root access. Sebastian Krahmer and Ernie Petrides developed a correction for this.

CAN-2004-0177

Solar Designer discovered an information leak in the ext3 code of Linux. In a worst case an attacker could read sensitive data such as cryptographic keys which would otherwise never hit disk media. Theodore Ts'o developed a correction for this.

CAN-2004-0178

Andreas Kies discovered a denial of service condition in the Sound Blaster driver in Linux. He also developed a correction.

These problems will also be fixed by upstream in Linux 2.4.26 and future versions of 2.6.

The following security matrix explains which kernel versions for which architecture are already fixed. Kernel images in the unstable Debian distribution (sid) will be fixed soon.

Architecture stable (woody) unstable (sid) removed in sid source 2.4.18-14.3 2.4.25-3 -- alpha 2.4.18-15 soon -- i386 2.4.18-13.1 soon -- i386bf 2.4.18-5woody8 soon -- powerpc 2.4.18-1woody5 2.4.25-8 2.4.22

We recommend that you upgrade your kernel packages immediately, either with a Debian provided kernel or with a self compiled one.

Upgrade Instructions - --------------------

wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386_2.4.18-13.1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1193 c5bea6e9e74b7bb8bf2dd6216cf1541d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386_2.4.18-13.1.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 70555 035a589ccba3168c3d72d383bbec5dab

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-headers-2.4.18-1_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3413448 1b9c7a124b6411a0fcf6cc5778171a66 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-386_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3504660 6696636adee7b176ab825d81e9165e4b http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-586tsc_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3506488 b4106b490093484664c43852856fa8bb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-686_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3505952 76dae7ea3d3101b360fb6698330c3398 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-686-smp_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3507012 4781cdd4b619bf98c3ad4f4161846d18 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-k6_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3506524 acc9deaf495f503d46914277197fbc77 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-k7_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3506410 42db7812cd1761f290166ab150b14adf http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-386_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 8798542 4a7e3724d38ff8d7b933e7a6f6bec4d5 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-586tsc_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 8704574 0030a2640f9d718cd7c41940a38eae34 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 8704946 326af5dd4d0435cc3f63469f820ed42a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686-smp_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 8959734 486ac57669b4fc210093b27588644423 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k6_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 8660568 088f65b9b009fa3627219ba948a86d89 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k7_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 8863282 235d52f69077f021308ef60284bfc384 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-1-386_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 229040 8e22be3a469155ce4e7467c1ae4d0bfb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-1-586tsc_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 228596 f505d3c1b47b335bf7ab6da711f20867 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-1-686_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 228056 d48d609916ccf68d5c070e3f67e49a37 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-1-686-smp_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 231696 7080fb38ee24c31440bb29895ed926e6 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-1-k6_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 227698 10d849de08330f6031d56412410d80c3 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-1-k7_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 230956 3a274e8913ad16a8dc53a53e5c43f14b

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision.

- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: [e-mail:debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org] Package info: 'apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/

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