Debian: DSA-3396-1: linux security update
Debian: DSA-3396-1: linux security update
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service. CVE-2015-5307
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3396-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso November 10, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : linux CVE ID : CVE-2015-5307 CVE-2015-7833 CVE-2015-7872 CVE-2015-7990 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service. CVE-2015-5307 Ben Serebrin from Google discovered a guest to host denial of service flaw affecting the KVM hypervisor. A malicious guest can trigger an infinite stream of "alignment check" (#AC) exceptions causing the processor microcode to enter an infinite loop where the core never receives another interrupt. This leads to a panic of the host kernel. CVE-2015-7833 Sergej Schumilo, Hendrik Schwartke and Ralf Spenneberg discovered a flaw in the processing of certain USB device descriptors in the usbvision driver. An attacker with physical access to the system can use this flaw to crash the system. CVE-2015-7872 Dmitry Vyukov discovered a vulnerability in the keyrings garbage collector allowing a local user to trigger a kernel panic. CVE-2015-7990 It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2015-6937 was incomplete. A race condition when sending a message on unbound socket can still cause a NULL pointer dereference. A remote attacker might be able to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending a crafted packet. For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.68-1+deb7u6. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6. We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages. Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://www.debian.org/security/ Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.