Debian 6.0: DSA-2389-1 Moderate: Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation

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

CVE-2011-2183

Andrea Righi reported an issue in KSM, a memory-saving de-duplication
feature. By exploiting a race with exiting tasks, local users can cause
a kernel oops, resulting in a denial of service.

CVE-2011-2213

Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the INET socket monitoring interface.
Local users could cause a denial of service by injecting code and causing
the kernel to execute an infinite loop.

CVE-2011-2898

Eric Dumazet reported an information leak in the raw packet socket
implementation.

CVE-2011-3353

Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a local denial of service issue issue in the FUSE
(Filesystem in Userspace) support in the linux kernel. Local users could
cause a buffer overflow, leading to a kernel oops and resulting in a denial
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