Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that
may lead to a denial of service, information leaks or privilege
escalation:
CVE-2014-0196
Jiri Slaby discovered a race condition in the pty layer, which could
lead to denial of service or privilege escalation.
CVE-2014-1737 / CVE-2014-1738
Matthew Daley discovered that missing input sanitising in the
FDRAWCMD ioctl and an information leak could result in privilege
escalation.
CVE-2014-2851
Incorrect reference counting in the ping_init_sock() function allows
denial of service or privilege escalation.
CVE-2014-3122
Incorrect locking of memory can result in local denial of service.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.2.57-3+deb7u1. This update also fixes a regression in the isci
driver and suspend problems with certain AMD CPUs (introduced in the
updated kernel from the Wheezy 7.5 point release).
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be f...
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