Security update for Linux kernel
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(Last modified: 01JUL2004)
solutions Security update for Linux kernel SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (a0b7af8264bb40feb7376a2dfd300d10)
Package: k_deflt
kernel-source
Release: 20040701
Obsoletes: none
- 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 -Uvh k_deflt.rpm
zipl
Please make sure to run "
zipl
" to write the updated IPL code to the DASD or MDISK as the system won't boot at next IPL otherwise.Now 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.)If you need the kernel sources you can install them by using the command:
rpm -Uvh kernel-source.rpm
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