CESA-2004:360: kernel security update
Description
Updated kernel packages that fix a security vulnerability affecting the kernel nfs server for CentOS Linux 3 are now available.
The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. During an audit of the Linux kernel, SUSE discovered a flaw that allowed a user to make unauthorized changes to the group ID of files in certain circumstances. In the 2.4 kernel, as shipped with CentOS Linux, the only way this could happen is through the kernel nfs server. A user on a system that mounted a remote file system from a vulnerable machine may be able to make unauthorized changes to the group ID of exported files. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0497 to this issue. Only CentOS Linux systems that are configured to share file systems via NFS are affected by this issue. All CentOS Linux 3 users are advised to upgrade their kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures and configurations as listed in this erratum.
Solution(s)
- centos-upgrade-kernel
- centos-upgrade-kernel-boot
- centos-upgrade-kernel-doc
- centos-upgrade-kernel-hugemem
- centos-upgrade-kernel-hugemem-unsupported
- centos-upgrade-kernel-smp
- centos-upgrade-kernel-smp-unsupported
- centos-upgrade-kernel-source
- centos-upgrade-kernel-unsupported
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