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Debian 6.0 DSA-2766-1 Critical: Kernel Privilege Escalation and DoS

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2013
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Multiple security flaws detected in the Linux kernel could lead to denial of service, elevation of privileges, or exposure of confidential data.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, information leak or privilege escalation

Summary

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

CVE-2013-2141

Emese Revfy provided a fix for an information leak in the tkill and
tgkill system calls. A local user on a 64-bit system maybe able to
gain access to sensitive memory contents.

CVE-2013-2164

Jonathan Salwan reported an information leak in the CD-ROM driver. A
local user on a system with a malfunctioning CD-ROM drive could gain
access to sensitive memory.

CVE-2013-2206

Karl Heiss reported an issue in the Linux SCTP implementation. A remote
user could cause a denial of service (system crash).

CVE-2013-2232

Dave Jones and Hannes Frederic Sowa resolved an issue in the IPv6
subsystem. Local users could cause a denial of service by using an
AF_INET6 socket to connect to an IPv4 destination.

CVE-2013-2234

Mathias Krause re...

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Package: linux-2.6

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