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Debian: DSA-3373-1 Critical System Libraries: Privilege Escalation and DoS

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2015
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Debian DSA-3373-1 tackles flaws in the kernel that pose risks to data integrity and operational reliability.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, unauthorised information disclosure or unauthorised inf...

Summary

CVE-2015-2925

Jann Horn discovered that when a subdirectory of a filesystem was
bind-mounted into a chroot or mount namespace, a user that should
be confined to that chroot or namespace could access the whole of
that filesystem if they had write permission on an ancestor of
the subdirectory. This is not a common configuration for wheezy,
and the issue has previously been fixed for jessie.

CVE-2015-5257

Moein Ghasemzadeh of Istuary Innovation Labs reported that a USB
device could cause a denial of service (crash) by imitating a
Whiteheat USB serial device but presenting a smaller number of
endpoints.

CVE-2015-5283

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner discovered that creating multiple SCTP
sockets at the same time could cause a denial of service (crash)
if the sctp module had not previously been loaded. This issue
only affects jessie.

CVE-2015-7613

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that System V IPC objects (message queues
and shared memory segments) were made...

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Package: linux
CVE ID: CVE-2015-2925 CVE-2015-5257 CVE-2015-5283 CVE-2015-7613

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