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Debian: DSA-2917-1 Critical: Super Package Setuid Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2014
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Update the essential software package to address security vulnerabilities related to privilege escalations and setuid discrepancies on Debian operating systems.
John Lightsey of the Debian Security Audit project discovered that the super package did not check for setuid failures, allowing local users to increase the privileges on kernel ve...
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Summary

John Lightsey of the Debian Security Audit project discovered that the
super package did not check for setuid failures, allowing local usersto increase the privileges on kernel versions which do not guard
against RLIMIT_NPROC attacks.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.30.0-3+squeeze2.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.30.0-6+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your super packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: super
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0470

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