Debian 5.0: DSA-2110-1 Critical: Buffer Overflow And Privilege Escalation

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

CVE-2010-2492

Andre Osterhues reported an issue in the eCryptfs subsystem. A buffer
overflow condition may allow local users to cause a denial of service
or gain elevated privileges.

CVE-2010-2954

Tavis Ormandy reported an issue in the irda subsystem which may allow
local users to cause a denial of service via a NULL pointer dereference.

CVE-2010-3078

Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the XFS file system that allows
local users to read potentially sensitive kernel memory.

CVE-2010-3080

Tavis Ormandy reported an issue in the ALSA sequencer OSS emulation
layer. Local users with sufficient privileges to open /dev/sequencer
(by default on Debian, this is members of the 'audio' group) can
cause a denial of service...