Debian: DSA-489-1 Critical: Kernel 2.4.17 Security Issues Fixed

Several serious problems have been discovered in the Linux kernel.
This update takes care of Linux 2.4.17 for the PowerPC/apus and S/390
architectures. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems that will be fixed with this update:

CAN-2004-0003

A vulnerability has been discovered in the R128 drive in the Linux
kernel which could potentially lead an attacker to gain
unauthorised privileges. Alan Cox and Thomas Biege developed a
correction for this

CAN-2004-0010

Arjan van de Ven discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the
ncp_lookup function for ncpfs in the Linux kernel, which could
lead an attacker to gain unauthorised privileges. Petr Vandrovec
developed a correction for this.

CAN-2004-0109

zen-parse discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the
ISO9660 filesystem component of Linux kernel which could be abused
by an attacker to gain unauthorised root access. Sebastian
Krahmer and Ernie Petrides deve...