Candidate: CVE-2004-0394 References: CONECTIVA:CLA-2004:846 URL:http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000846 GENTOO:GLSA-200407-02 URL:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200407-02.xml MANDRAKE:MDKSA-2004:037 URL:http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:037 MLIST:[fedora-announce] 20040422 Fedora alert FEDORA-2004-111 (kernel) URL:http://lwn.net/Articles/81773/ ENGARDE:ESA-20040428-004 URL:http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/engarde_advisory-4285.html SGI:20040504-01-U URL:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040504-01-U.asc SGI:20040505-01-U URL:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040505-01-U.asc SUSE:SuSE-SA:2004:010 URL:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_10_kernel.html XF:linux-panic-bo(15953) URL:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/15953 Description: A "potential" buffer overflow exists in the panic() function in Linux 2.4.x, although it may not be exploitable due to the functionality of panic. Notes: jmm> I've verified 2.6.8 to contain the correct vsnprintf() call jmm> For 2.4 it's fixed in 2.4.32, but unfixed in 2.4.27. I'm marking it jmm> needed, although I guess it's not exploitable Bugs: upstream: released (2.4.28-pre1) linux-2.6: N/A 2.6.8-sarge-security: N/A 2.4.27-sarge-security: released (2.4.27-1) 2.4.19-woody-security: released (2.4.19-4.woody3) 2.4.18-woody-security: released (2.4.18-14.4) 2.4.17-woody-security: released (2.4.17-1woody4) 2.4.16-woody-security: released (2.4.16-1woody3) 2.4.17-woody-security-hppa: released (32.5) 2.4.17-woody-security-ia64: released (011226.18) 2.4.18-woody-security-hppa: released (62.4)