Debian DSA-1749-1 Critical: Kernel Denial Of Service Issues

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that
may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:

CVE-2009-0029

Christian Borntraeger discovered an issue effecting the alpha,
mips, powerpc, s390 and sparc64 architectures that allows local
users to cause a denial of service or potentially gain elevated
privileges.

CVE-2009-0031

Vegard Nossum discovered a memory leak in the keyctl subsystem
that allows local users to cause a denial of service by consuming
all of kernel memory.

CVE-2009-0065

Wei Yongjun discovered a memory overflow in the SCTP
implementation that can be triggered by remote users.

CVE-2009-0269

Duane Griffin provided a fix for an issue in the eCryptfs
subsystem which allows local users to cause a denial of service
(fault or memory corruption).

CVE-2009-0322

Pavel Roskin provided a fix for an issue in the dell_rbu driver
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