Debian 3.0 DSA 413-1 Critical: Local Privilege Escalation Issue

Paul Starzetz discovered a flaw in bounds checking in mremap() in the
Linux kernel (present in version 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x) which may allow
a local attacker to gain root privileges.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
kernel-source version 2.4.18-14.1 and kernel-images versions
2.4.18-12.1 and 2.4.18-5woody6 (bf) for the i386 architecture.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon
with newly uploaded packages.

We recommend that you upgrade your kernel packages. This problem has
been fixed in the upstream version 2.4.24 as well.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
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