Debian DSA-1928-1 Critical: Linux 2.6.24 Kernel Privilege Escalation

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

CVE-2009-2846

Michael Buesch noticed a typing issue in the eisa-eeprom driver
for the hppa architecture. Local users could exploit this issue to
gain access to restricted memory.

CVE-2009-2847

Ulrich Drepper noticed an issue in the do_sigalstack routine on
64-bit systems. This issue allows local users to gain access to
potentially sensitive memory on the kernel stack.

CVE-2009-2848

Eric Dumazet discovered an issue in the execve path, where the
clear_child_tid variable was not being properly cleared. Local
users could exploit this issue to cause a denial of service
(memory corruption).

CVE-2009-2849

Neil Brown discovered an issue in the sysfs interface to md
devices. When md arrays are not active, local users can exploit
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