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Trustix Secure Linux Bugfix Advisory #2004-0034
Package name: kernel
Summary: Local DoS
Date: 2004-06-16
Affected versions: Trustix Secure Linux 2.0
Trustix Secure Linux 2.1
Trustix Operating System - Enterprise Server 2
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Package description:
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your
Trustix Secure Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic
functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation,
device input and output, etc.
Problem description:
A flaw was by accident discovered by Stian Skjelstad when he was doing
some code tests during vacation. He was quite surprised when I discovered
that the code he was trying froze his machine. He reported it to the
Linux-kernel mailing list and the gcc bugzilla 2004-06-09.
See CAN-2004-0554 at http://cve.mitre.org/ for more information.
Action:
We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded.
Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this
package, you may want to remove it from your system.
Location:
All Trustix Secure Linux updates are available from
About Trustix Secure Linux:
Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus
on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to
date from day one using swup, the automated software updater.
Automatic updates:
Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
installed using 'swup --upgrade'.
Public testing:
Most updates for Trustix Secure Linux are made available for public
testing some time before release.
If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the
testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the
tsl-discuss mailinglist.
The testing tree is located at
You may also use swup for public testing of updates:
site {
class = 0
location = "http://tsldev.trustix.org/horizon/rdfs/latest.rdf"
regexp = ".*"
}
Questions?
Check out our mailing lists:
Verification:
This advisory along with all Trustix packages are signed with the
TSL sign key.
This key is available from:
The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
and
or directly at
MD5sums of the packages:
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Trustix Security Team
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