Security update for Linux kernel
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(Last modified: 01JUL2004)
solutions Security update for Linux kernel SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (fd20460b62f25c351a365090f92f35e7)
Package: k_deflt
k_itanium2-smp
k_itanium2
k_smp
kernel-source
Release: 20040701
Obsoletes: fbc452895c8686539b54ae55bbebf6be
- 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
First, find out which kernel package to install by using the following command:
rpm -qf /boot/vmlinuz
Download the kernel image fitting your setup and install it with either:
rpm -Fvh k_deflt-*.rpm
for the default kernel image, orrpm -Fvh k_itanium2-smp-*.rpm
for the Itanium2 SMP kernel image, orrpm -Fhv k_itanium2.rpm-*.rpm
for the Itanium2 kernel image, orrpm -Fhv k_smp-*.rpm
for the SMP kernel image
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.)
If you are interested in installing the kernel sources, please download the package
kernel-source
and install it with:
rpm -Uhv kernel-source-*.rpm
Download Source Packages
Download the source code of the patches for maintained products.
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