Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:42:20 +0000 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Linux 2.4.36.1 |
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I've just released Linux 2.4.36.1.
It includes fixes for 6 minor security issues, most of them brought by Dann Frazier of the Debian security team. It also restores the ability to build user-space depending on kernel headers with GCC 4.2.
As usual when dealing with security, upgrading is recommended, but there's nothing serious enough to justify a blind rush :
CVE-2008-0007 : insufficient range checks in certain fault handlers CVE-2007-5093 : DoS in pwc USB video driver CVE-2007-4308 : missing permission checks in aacraid ioctls CVE-2006-5753 : memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops ret values CVE-2007-2525 : memory leak when a PPPoE socket is released CVE-2006-6054 : ext2 denial of service in presence of malformed data structures
BTW, to make it clear to those who are wondering, since some are asking : there is no vmsplice syscall in 2.4 so the exploit published last week has no effect there, as it is only relevant to 2.6.18+.
The patch and changelog will appear soon at the following locations: ftp://ftp.all.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ ftp://ftp.all.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.36.1.bz2 ftp://ftp.all.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.36.1
Git repository: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-v2.4.36.y.git http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-v2.4.36.y.git
Git repository through the gitweb interface: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-v2.4.36.y.git
Regards, Willy
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Summary of changes from v2.4.36 to v2.4.36.1 ============================================
Willy Tarreau (4): Do not complain about gcc 4.2 for user-space i386: fix setCx86/getCx86 race in macros security: insufficient range checks in certain fault handlers Change VERSION to 2.4.36.1
dann frazier (7): ext2_readdir() filp->f_pos fix avoid semi-infinite loop when mounting bad ext2 ext2: skip pages past number of blocks in ext2_find_entry memory leak when socket is release()d before PPPIOCGCHAN has been called on it 2.4: fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return values 2.4: [SCSI] aacraid: Fix security hole 2.4: USB: fix DoS in pwc USB video driver
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