bugtraq - [UPRSN] Ubuntu Privacy Remix 8.04r3 fixes security issues

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Message-ID: <499998C5.8030207@privacy-cd.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:48:05 +0100
From: Ubuntu Privacy Remix Team <security_notice@...vacy-cd.org>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: [UPRSN] Ubuntu Privacy Remix 8.04r3 fixes security issues

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UPR Security Notice UPRSN-08_03           January 16, 2009
several vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu Privacy Remix (UPR), based on Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS), is a live,
read-only CD that seals off your private data from the outside world to
offer protection against spying measures such as the german
„Bundestrojaner“, with which the German government and federal police
tries to spy on its citizens.
UPR does this using encryption and isolation methods. This method of
booting off a read-only CD provides a isolated and unmodifiable system
that is exceedingly difficult to compromise by spyware.
The following security issues affect the "Ubuntu Privacy Remix" releases
prior 8.04_r3.

Ubuntu Privacy Remix 8.04_r1 can be downloaded from
https://www.privacy-cd.org/


A. UPR-specific
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1. New feature to overwrite memory on shutdown which prevents that
remains of the UPR system (e.g. encryption keys) are still readable from
RAM after reboot from a compromised local operating system (see article
 “The Problem of „Cold Boot Attacks“” for details:
https://www.privacy-cd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70%3Acold-boot-angriffe&catid=19%3Afeatures&Itemid=35&lang=en).


B. Security Updates adopted from Ubuntu
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All packages with security-fixes in Ubuntu 8.04 until 02/10/2009 have
been updated. Among others the sources, the UPR-Kernel ist based on,
were updated to Ubuntu source-package 2.6.24-23.


See the complete changelog (new functions and features, bugfixes) here:
https://www.privacy-cd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66&Itemid=89&lang=en


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