Debian alert: New Linux 2.4.17 packages fix local root exploit (ia64)

Posted by dave on Feb 20, 2004 3:25 AM EDT
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Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside the mremap(2) system call. Due to missing function return value check of internal functions a local attacker can gain root privileges.

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- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 444-1 [e-mail:security@debian.org] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 20th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Package : kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64 Vulnerability : missing function return value check Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0077

Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside the mremap(2) system call. Due to missing function return value check of internal functions a local attacker can gain root privileges.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 011226.16 of ia64 kernel source and images.

Other architectures are or will be mentioned in a separate advisory respectively or are not affected (m68k).

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed in version 2.4.24-3.

This problem is also fixed in the upstream version of Linux 2.4.25 and 2.6.3.

We recommend that you upgrade your Linux kernel packages immediately.

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-2.4.17-ia64/kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64_011226.16.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 736 ce2c07cdef967852affbded0c3b87d07 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64/kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64_011226.16.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 25404148 fc05010d0a2597556ade2725bd9964ba

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64/kernel-source-2.4.17-ia64_011226.16_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 24735276 62b217b8063eee0e7bcc0dab7cf1d436

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64/kernel-headers-2.4.17-ia64_011226.16_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3635878 a80b582cac7154d87a683d3fb26504a9 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64/kernel-image-2.4.17-itanium_011226.16_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 7019622 55c55179d90f2f65b855a6ae4190cc70 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64/kernel-image-2.4.17-itanium-smp_011226.16_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 7168586 8f95a26976bcedae6bece27dd60237e1 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64/kernel-image-2.4.17-mckinley_011226.16_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 7011682 001c6f5ed436bfcd42acbb6d6046b11c http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.17-ia64/kernel-image-2.4.17-mckinley-smp_011226.16_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 7161374 586b7f6a4912694036df7dfadd4a57ca

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

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