In Feburary, iDefense notified us of a flaw in the iso9660 filesystem component of the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel performs no length checking on symbolic links stored on an ISO9660 filesystem, allowing a malformed CD to perform an arbitrary length overflow in kernel memory. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must be able to mount a maliciously constructed filesystem (for example by being at the machine in order to insert a cdrom) This issue is embargoed until 1400UTC on April 14th 2004.
removing embargo
this was fixed in U4, e.43+ closing.