Debian alert: New Linux 2.4.19 packages fix local root exploit (mips)

Posted by dave on Apr 17, 2004 12:49 PM 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 2.4.17 for the MIPS architecture.

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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 491-1 [e-mail:security@debian.org] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 17th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Package : kernel-source-2.4.19 kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips 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 2.4.17 for the MIPS architecture. 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 for this.

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

The following security matrix explains which kernel versions for which architectures are already fixed and which will be removed instead.

Architecture stable (woody) unstable (sid) remove in sid source 2.4.19-4.woody2 2.4.25-3 2.4.19-11 mips 2.4.19-0.020911.1.woody4 2.4.25-0.040415.1 2.4.19-0.020911.8 h 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-source-2.4.19/kernel-source-2.4.19_2.4.19-4.woody2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 672 9860f430fe435100c103a42c7b5dbc66 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-source-2.4.19/kernel-source-2.4.19_2.4.19-4.woody2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 47625 cc802c42472c637de501dde07df7cec8 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-source-2.4.19/kernel-source-2.4.19_2.4.19.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 32000211 237896fbb45ae652cc9c5cecc9b746da

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips/kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips_2.4.19-0.020911.1.woody4.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 792 a21174ff774b45160cf3f714ea1ec226 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips/kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips_2.4.19-0.020911.1.woody4.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1032076 96e1ae069ef39afbdae505edc6f11375

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-source-2.4.19/kernel-doc-2.4.19_2.4.19-4.woody2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1783144 deaa1a0705f5f334ebbc60734b6bc2c7 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-source-2.4.19/kernel-source-2.4.19_2.4.19-4.woody2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 25895130 f42c8c0b27e644d024e33738a5c87863

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips/kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips_2.4.19-0.020911.1.woody4_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1032600 c7ec4194385c7ee8601c7f4c87490d2f

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips/kernel-headers-2.4.19_2.4.19-0.020911.1.woody4_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3894818 a2277f0f0f386754f129bac5f9f79af9 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips/kernel-image-2.4.19-r4k-ip22_2.4.19-0.020911.1.woody4_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 2075552 c47eb88aa359b8b5613e24256d23ce96 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips/kernel-image-2.4.19-r5k-ip22_2.4.19-0.020911.1.woody4_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 2075960 a9a95f93c8dacac25dd45878b520ff37 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips/mips-tools_2.4.19-0.020911.1.woody4_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 13114 4b8f0c9fbf91dcc093ac59087b016208

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

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