From agent99@sgi.com Sat May 22 03:10:34 2004 From: SGI Security Coordinator To: agent99@sgi.com Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com, vulnwatch@vulnwatch.org Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin, comp.security.unix, comp.sys.sgi.announce, comp.security.announce Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 15:23:58 -0700 Subject: [Full-Disclosure] SGI ProPack v2.4: Kernel Update #4 - Security and other fixes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SGI Security Advisory Title : SGI ProPack v2.4: Kernel Update #4 - Security and other fixes Number : 20040505-01-U Date : May 19, 2004 Fixed in : Patch 10074 for SGI ProPack v2.4 ______________________________________________________________________________ SGI provides this information freely to the SGI user community for its consideration, interpretation, implementation and use. SGI recommends that this information be acted upon as soon as possible. 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In no event shall SGI be liable for any loss of profits, loss of business, loss of data or for any indirect, special, exemplary, incidental or consequential damages of any kind arising from your use of, failure to use or improper use of any of the instructions or information in this Security Advisory. ______________________________________________________________________________ - -------------- - --- Update --- - -------------- SGI has released Patch 10074 - SGI ProPack v2.4:Kernel Update #4 - Security and other fixes, which includes updated SGI ProPack v2.4 RPMs for the SGI Altix family of systems, in response to the following security issues: * possible buffer overrun in panic() (SGI BUG 913069) http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0394 http://www.osvdb.org/displayvuln.php?osvdb_id=5668 * do_fork() memory leak DoS (SGI BUG 913115) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108139073506983&w=2 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0427 * potential memory access to free memory in /proc handling (SGI BUG 913756) http://www.osvdb.org/displayvuln.php?osvdb_id=2093 There are several non-security related bug fixes also in patch 10074. 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