Security update for Linux kernel

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(Last modified: 18MAR2008)

solutions Security update for Linux kernel SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (ecea9bb7c95d1d842c67c822088572c9)

Applies to

Package: kernel-bigsmp
kernel-bigsmp-debug
kernel-debug
kernel-debug-debug
kernel-default
kernel-default-debug
kernel-smp
kernel-smp-debug
kernel-source
kernel-syms
kernel-um
kernel-um-debug
kernel-xen
kernel-xen-debug
kernel-xenpae
kernel-xenpae-debug
um-host-install-initrd
um-host-kernel
Product(s): SUSE CORE 9 for x86
Novell Linux POS 9
Patch: patch-12106
Release: 20080318
Obsoletes: 72ea46ec41fef50208fe0f369ececced
606ee553a5bee0a835e87158f14103fc

Indications

Everyone using the Linux Kernel should update.

Contraindications

None.

Problem description

This kernel update fixes the following security problems:

Memory overrun vulnerability in ISDN code (CVE-2007-6151)
Insufficient range checks of certain fault handlers (CVE-2008-0007)
Reset current->pdeath_signal on SUID binary execution (CVE-2007-3848)
aacraid: Fix range checks (CVE-2007-4308).
fixed a remote buffer overflow in CIFS (CVE-2007-5904)

Further improvements include:

Several kernel crashes addressed.
Improvements to running as a VMWare guest.
Update of OCFS2 to 1.2.8-2.
New code drop for the s390 architecture.

For details and a complete list of changes, please refer to the package changelog.

Solution

Please install the updates provided at the location noted below.

Before you install this patch make sure that your system is on SP4 level.

Installation notes

This update is provided as an RPM package that can easily be installed onto a running system.
First, find out which kernel package to download and use, for example with

rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz

Download the kernel image fitting your setup and the kernel symbols (kernel-syms*.rpm) and install it with either:

rpm -Fvh kernel-syms*.rpm kernel-default*.rpm for the default kernel image, or
rpm -Fhv kernel-syms*.rpm kernel-smp*.rpm for the SMP kernel image with support for up to 64 GB, or
rpm -Fhv kernel-syms*.rpm kernel-bigsmp*.rpm for the SMP kernel image with support for up to 64 GB

Please do only install one of these kernels, not all of them.
In case you are using LILO as bootmanager, 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.)

links to download packages

Download Source Packages

Download the source code of the patches for maintained products.

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