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-2010-2963
Kees Cook discovered an issue in the v4l 32-bit compatibility layer for
64-bit systems that allows local users with /dev/video write permission to
overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, potentially leading to a privilege
escalation. On Debian systems, access to /dev/video devices is restricted to
members of the 'video' group by default.
CVE-2010-3067
Tavis Ormandy discovered an issue in the io_submit system call. Local users can cause an integer overflow resulting in a denial of service.
CVE-2010-3296
Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the cxgb network driver that allows
unprivileged users to obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory.
CVE-2010-3297
Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the eql network...
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