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×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-2009-1883
Solar Designer discovered a missing capability check in the
z90crypt driver or s390 systems. This vulnerability may allow
a local user to gain elevated privileges.
CVE-2009-2909
Arjan van de Ven discovered an issue in the AX.25 protocol
implementation. A specially crafted call to setsockopt() can
result in a denial of service (kernel oops).
CVE-2009-3001
Jiri Slaby fixed a sensitive memory leak issue in the ANSI/IEEE
802.2 LLC implementation. This is not exploitable in the Debian
lenny kernel as root privileges are required to exploit this
issue.
CVE-2009-3002
Eric Dumazet fixed several sensitive memory leaks in the IrDA,
X.25 PLP (Rose), NET/ROM, Acorn Econet/AUN, and Controller Area
Network (CAN) implemen...
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