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Secunia Advisory: SA14713
Release Date: 2005-03-29
Last Update: 2005-04-14
Popularity: 20,681 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Linux Kernel 2.4.x
Linux Kernel 2.6.x

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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Solution:
Update to version 2.6.11.6.
http://kernel.org/

The vulnerabilities have also been fixed in version 2.4.30-rc2.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Michal Zalewski
2) Ilja van Sprundel
3) Mathieu Lafon and Romain Francoise, Arkoon Network Security.
4) Yichen Xie
5) Patrick McHardy

Changelog:
2005-04-04: Added additional information about third vulnerability.
2005-04-06: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.
2005-04-14: Added information about fifth vulnerability.

Original Advisory:
Kernel.org:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.5
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.6
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.30.log

Arkoon Network Security:
http://arkoon.net/advisories/ext2-make-empty-leak.txt

Other References:
US-CERT VU#685461:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/685461

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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