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From: agent99 at sgi.com (SGI Security Coordinator)
Subject: SGI ProPack 3: Kernel Update #1 - Security and other fixes

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                           SGI Security Advisory

  Title     : SGI ProPack 3: Kernel Update #1 - Security and other fixes
  Number    : 20040504-01-U
  Date      : May 19, 2004
  Fixed in  : Patch 10072 for SGI ProPack 3
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SGI has released Patch 10072 - SGI ProPack 3:Kernel Update #1 - Security
and other fixes, which includes updated SGI ProPack 3 RPMs for the
SGI Altix family of systems, in response to the following security issues:

* possible buffer overrun in panic() (SGI BUG 913069)
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0394
  http://www.osvdb.org/displayvuln.php?osvdb_id=5668

* do_fork() memory leak DoS (SGI BUG 913115)
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108139073506983&w=2
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0427

* Updated IA64 kernel packages resolve vulnerabilities (SGI BUG 913475)
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-183.html
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-106.html
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0109
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0424

* potential memory access to free memory in /proc handling (SGI BUG 913756)
  http://www.osvdb.org/displayvuln.php?osvdb_id=2093

SGI ProPack is not vulnerable to the following security issues:

* setsockopt MCAST_MSFILTER integer overflow (SGI BUG 913265)
  http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0015-msfilter.txt
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0424

There are several non-security related bug fixes also in patch 10072.

Patch 10072 is available from http://support.sgi.com/ and
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/patches/ProPack/3/

The individual kernel RPMs from Patch 10072 are available from:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/download/3/updates/RPMS
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/download/3/updates/SRPMS


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