Technical Description

Trustix has released updated packages to correct multiple vulnerabilities identified in Kernel and Perl. These flaws could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-2649 - VUPEN/ADV-2005-2774 - VUPEN/ADV-2005-2688

Affected Products

Trustix Secure Linux 2.2
Trustix Secure Linux 3.0
Trustix Operating System - Enterprise Server 2

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
ftp://ftp.trustix.org/pub/trustix/updates/

0a2350d4e0d9965f62cdf5888bcb0f59 2.2/rpms/perl-5.8.5-9tr.i586.rpm
f9fcbc28250c9e5814e42efcc9f43d8a 3.0/rpms/kernel-2.6.14.3-1tr.i586.rpm
358f51e0ff323ff75181c6c4e2bc6344 3.0/rpms/kernel-doc-2.6.14.3-1tr.i586.rpm
d947bd6c4c87baebb8c0de07e318eb5c 3.0/rpms/kernel-headers-2.6.14.3-1tr.i586.rpm
c310a3663bb59f7e239646ec666ca7e8 3.0/rpms/kernel-smp-2.6.14.3-1tr.i586.rpm
bb7bcc9f91b3d7ca8e4788130db0b6d4 3.0/rpms/kernel-smp-headers-2.6.14.3-1tr.i586.rpm
3ee05562361906884b990a716c16ed3f 3.0/rpms/kernel-source-2.6.14.3-1tr.i586.rpm
6701845da1900ff436de6430b30a20d5 3.0/rpms/kernel-utils-2.6.14.3-1tr.i586.rpm
cace6154ca9297d263abd04f1ac25358 3.0/rpms/perl-5.8.7-2tr.i586.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2823
http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-December/000365.html

ChangeLog

2005-12-12 : Initial release

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