Security update for Linux kernel
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(Last modified: 19NOV2004)
solutions Security update for Linux kernel SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (985c3bf47421fb88a4aff663f68943a7)
kernel-source
Product(s): SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for IBM S/390 and IBM zSeries
Release: 20041119
Obsoletes: 08bc707557dbbf09c09a3b832ea06959
- Fixed / Added ELF loader error handling where it was missing, which could lead to a local privilege escalation. This was found by Paul Starzetz of isec.pl.
- Fixed several smbfs boundary checking problems which could lead to buffer overflows. This issue was found by Stefan Essern and was assigned the CVE ID CAN-2004-0883.
- Fixed a possible userspace corruptions / data disclosure problem on SMP machines with more than 4 GB of RAM.
- Fixed a denial of service condition in a.out support.
rpm -Fvh k_deflt.rpm
zipl
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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