Security update for Linux kernel
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(Last modified: 04APR2004)
solutions Security update for Linux kernel SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (7e26c6123a27d9f3e3ad4b5009cee4fe)
SuSE Linux Standard Server 8
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for x86
SuSE Linux Openexchange Server 4
Package: k_athlon
k_deflt
k_psmp
k_smp
k_debug
kernel-source
Release: 20040404
Obsoletes: 7b5f86400f783e0618825bf05523e0eb
Security issues
- A buffer overflow has been found in the ISO 9660 filesystem code which can be exploited locally by mounting a malformed ISO CD file system. (CAN-2004-0109)
- A possible leak of information has been discovered in the JFS file system code. (CAN-2004-0181)
- Fix
cpu_sibling_map
on summit machines. - Fix for I/O resource allocation failure during PCI hotplug.
- Fix some more ACPI IRQ problems.
sunrpc-svcsock-drop
: Be more careful about dropping connections in RPC, work around for buggy NFS clients.- Fix for
ocfs2
mount problem. - Fix for user triggerable oops in x86-64 32bit emulation.
- Allow IPv6 netfilter modules to be loaded on x86_64.
- Addition of new version 5.2.30.1 of
e1000
driver ase1000-new.o
- Providing some additional entries for
scsi_scan blacklist
. - Semaphore fix (#38517, i386 & x86-64): On massive parallel load with asynchronous I/O, a bug in the semaphore implementation on i386 and x86-64 could have been triggered, leading to races and thus data corruption or kernel crashed.
First, find out which kernel package to use, for example with
rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz
Download the kernel image fitting your setup and install it with either:
- rpm -Fvh k_deflt-2.4.*.i586.rpm for the default kernel image, or
- rpm -Fhv k_athlon-2.4.*.i586.rpm for the AMD Athlon optimized kernel image, or
- rpm -Fhv k_smp-2.4.*.i586.rpm for the SMP kernel image, or
- rpm -Fhv k_psmp-2.4.*.i586.rpm for the PSMP kernel image
In case you are using lilo, please make sure that you also execute the command
lilo
after installing the update for the system to remain bootable.
Finally, reboot the system with
shutdown -r now
to load the new kernel (replace "now" with the appropriate amount of time to allow local users to cleanly log out, for example "+5" for five minutes.)
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