Security update for Linux kernel (k_smp)
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solutions Security update for Linux kernel (k_smp) SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (2da22583ff0c8db67fb1fe8e3d7b0e4b)
SuSE Firewall on CD 2
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IA32
SuSE Linux Office Server
Package: k_smp
Release: 20040702
Obsoletes: 60ee3eca8c6935a611977fff2b647d4a
f54803e6f4dd1dad369b8d45b757eadc
- chown: users can change the group affiliation of arbitrary files to the group they belong to
- pss, mpu401 sound driver: read/write to complete memory
- airo driver: read/write to complete memory
- ALSA: copy_from_user/copy_to_user confused
- acpi_asus: read from random memory
- decnet: write to memory without checking
- e1000 driver: read complete memory
rpm -Fvh k_smp.rpm
Please do not forget to run
mk_initrd
and lilo
after updating the kernel and prior to reboot. Download Source Packages
Download the source code of the patches for maintained products.
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