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Debian 3.0 DSA-360-1 Urgent: System Firmware Update Advisory

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Calendar Grey August 5, 2003
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The Debian platform has resolved previous vulnerabilities. Follow the protocols for critical updates and system maintenance.
This advisory provides a correction to the previous kernel updates,which contained an error introduced in kernel-source-2.4.18 version2.4.18-7

Summary

This advisory provides a correction to the previous kernel updates,
which contained an error introduced in kernel-source-2.4.18 version
2.4.18-7. This error could result in a kernel "oops" under certain
circumstances.

For the stable distribution (woody) on the i386 architecture, this
problem has been fixed in kernel-source-2.4.18 version 2.4.18-12 and
kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386 version 2.4.18-10.

For the stable distribution (woody) on the alpha architecture, this
problem has been fixed in kernel-source-2.4.18 version 2.4.18-12 and
kernel-image-2.4.18-1-alpha version 2.4.18-9.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
kernel-source-2.4.20 version 2.4.20-7.

We recommend that you update your kernel packages.

If you are using the kernel installed by the installation system when
the "bf24" option is selected (for a 2.4.x kernel), you should install
the kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 package. If you installed a different
kernel-image package after installation, you should install the
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Package: linux-kernel-i386, linux-kernel-alpha

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