Kernel Security Updates for Sarge

2005-05-11 Thread Horms
Hi Martin, Steve Langasek asked me to get in contact with you in regards to kernel security updates for sarge. I am happy to report that I and other members of the kernel team have been keeping the kernel-source for both 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 up to date in SVN. And as of yesterday afternoon I have no o

Bug#308724: CAN-2005-1263: "ELF core dump privilege elevation"

2005-05-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Severity: grave Tags: security patch Justification: user security hole http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.9 The relevent changes for this CAN appear to be solely in ./fs/binfmt_elf.c. There is also a memset in ./drivers/char/drm/drm_ioctl.c whic

Re: Common kernel-image source package

2005-05-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 11 May 2005 10:21:53 -0400, Andres Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'd love to see the code you have so far. My plan was/is to use > cdbs2 for the common kernel image stuff (code is available here: > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/build-common/trunk/?rev=0&sc=0). The > main goals of cd

Bug#308634: kernel-source-2.6.8: A locally exploitable flaw to gain root.

2005-05-11 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, 11 May 2005 19:40:15 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 > Severity: grave > Justification: user security hole > > > A locally exploitable flaw has been found in the Linux ELF binary format > loader's core dump function that allows local users to gain roo

Processed: kernel

2005-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 286536 kernel Bug#286536: kernel-image-2.6.9-9-amd64-k8: random lockups when using bridging Warning: Unknown package 'kernel-image-2.6.9-9-amd64-k8' Bug reassigned from package `kernel-image-2.6.9-9-amd64-k8' to `kernel'. > -- Stopping process

Bug#296955: ADT7467 bad fan speed: confirmed on iBook G4

2005-05-11 Thread Philipp Kern
Subject: ADT7467 bad fan speed: confirmed on iBook G4 Followup-For: Bug #296955 Package: kernel-image-2.6.10-powerpc The fan speed is still different from 2.6.9 on 2.6.11. It does at least not affect me negatively, so this might be intended. This still looks strange to me: adt746x: Lowering max t

Bug#308649: Useless modules loaded: confirmed on iBook G4

2005-05-11 Thread Philipp Kern
Subject: Useless modules loaded: confirmed on iBook G4 Followup-For: Bug #305212 Package: kernel-image-2.6.11-powerpc Version: 2.6.11-1 I get the same problem on an iBook G4. The modules are loaded and some other program, it's not the kernel, wants to unload those on boot, but this fails. Strange

Processed: 308634 is a security bug

2005-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 308634 security Bug#308634: kernel-source-2.6.8: A locally exploitable flaw to gain root. There were no tags set. Tags added: security > thanks, control, and have a nice day Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Deb

Bug#308639: kernel-build vs. kernel-headers splitted broken, headers unuseable

2005-05-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
Package: kernel-build-2.6.8-powerpc Version: 2.6.8-12 Severity: grave Hello, I tried to understand your packaging scheme and IMO you do it _wrong_. a) kernel-build-KVERS on other architectures is a package with common files. Your packages seem to play the role of kernel-headers-KVERS packg

Bug#308634: kernel-source-2.6.8: A locally exploitable flaw to gain root.

2005-05-11 Thread Samuli Suominen
Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Severity: grave Justification: user security hole A locally exploitable flaw has been found in the Linux ELF binary format loader's core dump function that allows local users to gain root privileges and also execute arbitrary code at kernel privilege level. V

Re: Kernel compiling....

2005-05-11 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, 07 May 2005 19:55:39 -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: [...] > > And another idea, dilinger could upload the packages > to people.d.o, it can avoid the problem of uncertain about > his Debian membership. > Yes, I should probably do that. As I'm in the process of movi

Re: Common kernel-image source package

2005-05-11 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 10 May 2005 23:59:31 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [...] > > Tentatively, my plans are like this: > a) Break up the /usr/share/kernel-package/rules file into smaller > blocks, and move them into separate, modules like: > /usr/share/kernel-package/include/BLAH.mk > >

Bug#308621: kernel-kbuild-2.6-3: modpost can't be used on x86_64 kernels

2005-05-11 Thread Patrice Fournier
Package: kernel-kbuild-2.6-3 Version: 2.6.8-2 Severity: important Extra modules can't be built for an x86_64 kernels as the modpost linked from the kernel-headers-2.6.8-11-em64t-p4-smp/scripts/mod directory is looking for 32 bits ELF headers. You can test this by using modpost on any x86_64 kerne

Bug#304548: CAN-2005-1041: DoS vulnerability in fib_seq_start()

2005-05-11 Thread Horms
tags 304548 +pending thanks The fix for CAN-2005-1041 is in SVN for 2.6.8. It was included in kernel-source-2.6.11 2.6.11-1 as part of the 2.6.11.5 patchset from upstream. It is not present in 2.4.27. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Bug#280492: marked as done (kernel-source-2.4.27: strncpy does not 0-pad destination on some archs)

2005-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Wed, 11 May 2005 18:39:52 +0900 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line kernel-source-2.4.27: strncpy does not 0-pad destination on some archs has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. I

Bug#307552: CAN-2005-1369

2005-05-11 Thread Horms
tag 307552 +pending thanks I have added the fix for CAN-2005-1369 to SVN for 2.6.8. It is also present in SVN for 2.6.11. 2.4.27 does not appear to have these drivers. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#307553: CAN-2005-1368

2005-05-11 Thread Horms
reassign 307553 kernel-source-2.6.11 tag 307553 +pending thanks The fix for CAN-2005-1368 is in SVN for 2.6.11. The code that this bug manifests in is not present in 2.6.8 or 2.4.27. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Processed: Re: CAN-2005-1368

2005-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 307553 kernel-source-2.6.11 Bug#307553: CAN-2005-1368: DoS possibility through inproper SMP race handling in key_user_lookup() Bug reassigned from package `kernel-source-2.6.8' to `kernel-source-2.6.11'. > tag 307553 +pending Bug#307553: CAN-

Processed: Re: CAN-2005-1041: DoS vulnerability in fib_seq_start()

2005-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 304548 +pending Bug#304548: CAN-2005-1041: DoS vulnerability in fib_seq_start() Tags were: security Tags added: pending > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (admini

Processed: Re: CAN-2005-1369

2005-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tag 307552 +pending Bug#307552: CAN-2005-1369: DoS through user-writable sysfs nodes in it87 and via686a drivers Tags were: security Tags added: pending > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking

Processed: CAN-2004-0790

2005-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tag 305655 +pending Bug#305655: CAN-2004-0790: TCP connection DoS through ICMP_QUENCH messages Tags were: patch security Tags added: pending > -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administr

Processed: CAN-2005-0749

2005-05-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tag 302705 +pending Bug#302705: CAN-2005-0749: Potential DOS in elf_load_library() Tags were: security Tags added: pending > -- Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrato

Bug#308584: kernel-source-2.4.27: missing sysctl slot for ia64 results in local DoS

2005-05-11 Thread Horms
Package: kernel-source-2.4.27 Version: 2.4.27-10 Severity: important Tags: patch, security, pending I got this from Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-284.html This is CAN-2005-0137 : Linux kernel 2.6 on Itanium (ia64) architectures al

Bug#287952: kernel-source-2.6.8: nfs-kernel freezes the system

2005-05-11 Thread Ondrej Medek
> Is this a custom build of the kernel? If so > can you provide your .config, or better still > try using one of the kernel-images on d.o. Hi, kernel images from Debian distribution seems to have much higher uptime. I really have no cue what's wrong. There are no symoops, the kernel was just froz