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Linux 2.4.28-ow1 is out

From:  Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
To:  announce@lists.openwall.com, owl-users@lists.openwall.com
Subject:  Linux 2.4.28-ow1 is out
Date:  Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:42:15 +0300
Cc:  lwn@lwn.net

Hi,

I've released Linux 2.4.28-ow1 a few days ago.  (Apologies for the
delayed announcement.)

Linux 2.4.28, and thus 2.4.28-ow1, fixes a number of security-related
bugs, including the ELF loader vulnerabilities discovered by Paul
Starzetz (confirmed: ability for users to read +s-r binaries;
potential: local root), a race condition with reads from Unix domain
sockets (potential local root), smbfs support vulnerabilities
discovered by Stefan Esser (confirmed: remote DoS by a malicious smbfs
server; potential: remote root by a malicious smbfs server).  More
information on these vulnerabilities can be found here:

	http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0017-binfmt_elf.txt
	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=11009118320...
	http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/142004.html

The updated patch is available at:

	http://www.openwall.com/linux/

Owl-current and Owl 1.1-stable have been updated to include Linux
2.4.28-ow1 as the recommended kernel.

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Alexander Peslyak <solar at openwall.com>
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