Re: [linux-security] another local root exploit in the Linux kernel

[Martin Siegert <siegert@sfu.ca>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:46:29PM -0700, Martin Siegert wrote:
> Topic
> =====
> Local root exploit in Linux kernel.

As you may have noticed in my first announcement about this vulnerability
I was somewhat surprised that RedHat released new kernel versions for
7.1 only. It turns out that that update only solved half of the problem.
New kernel RPMs are now available for all RedHat distributions.

Upgrade Informations
====================

In the following <ext> is either empty or -smp or -enterprise and <cpu> is
either i386, i586, i686 or (in the case of 7.2) athlon.

RedHat 6.x
----------
rpm -ivh kernel<ext>-2.2.19-6.2.12.<cpu>.rpm

rpm -Fvh kernel-doc-2.2.19-6.2.12.i386.rpm \
         kernel-headers-2.2.19-6.2.12.i386.rpm \
         kernel-source-2.2.19-6.2.12.i386.rpm \
         kernel-ibcs-2.2.19-6.2.12.i386.rpm \
         kernel-utils-2.2.19-6.2.12.i386.rpm \
         kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.19-6.2.12.i386.rpm

RedHat 7.0
----------
rpm -ivh kernel<ext>-2.2.19-7.0.12.<cpu>.rpm

rpm -Fvh kernel-doc-2.2.19-7.0.12.i386.rpm \
         kernel-source-2.2.19-7.0.12.i386.rpm \
         kernel-utils-2.2.19-7.0.12.i386.rpm \
         kernel-ibcs-2.2.19-7.0.12.i386.rpm \
         kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.19-7.0.12.i386.rpm

RedHat 7.1
----------
rpm -ivh kernel<ext>-2.4.9-12.<cpu>.rpm

rpm -Fvh kernel-doc-2.4.9-12.i386.rpm \
         kernel-source-2.4.9-12.i386.rpm \
         kernel-headers-2.4.9-12.i386.rpm 

RedHat 7.2
----------
rpm -ivh kernel<ext>-2.4.9-13.<cpu>.rpm

rpm -Fvh kernel-source-2.4.9-13.i386.rpm \
         kernel-headers-2.4.9-13.i386.rpm \
         kernel-doc-2.4.9-13.i386.rpm