Debian: DSA-2264-1 Critical: Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Issues

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-2010-2524

David Howells reported an issue in the Common Internet File System (CIFS).
Local users could cause arbitrary CIFS shares to be mounted by introducing
malicious redirects.

CVE-2010-3875

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the Linux implementation of the
Amateur Radio AX.25 Level 2 protocol. Local users may obtain access to
sensitive kernel memory.

CVE-2010-4075

Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the tty layer that may allow local
users to obtain access to sensitive kernel memory.

CVE-2010-4655

Kees Cook discovered several issues in the ethtool interface which may
allow local users with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to obtain access to
sensitive kernel memory.

CVE-2011-0695

Jens Kuehnel reported an issue in the ...