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Debian: DSA-5161-1 Critical: Linux Kernel Escalation and DoS Threats

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Calendar Grey June 11, 2022
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A range of security vulnerabilities in the Debian Linux kernel necessitate immediate patches to avert escalation risks and safeguard sensitive data.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks

Summary

CVE-2022-0494

The scsi_ioctl() was susceptible to an information leak only
exploitable by users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_RAWIO
capabilities.

CVE-2022-0854

Ali Haider discovered a potential information leak in the DMA
subsystem. On systems where the swiotlb feature is needed, this
might allow a local user to read sensitive information.

CVE-2022-1012

The randomisation when calculating port offsets in the IP
implementation was enhanced.

CVE-2022-1729

Norbert Slusarek discovered a race condition in the perf subsystem
which could result in local privilege escalation to root. The
default settings in Debian prevent exploitation unless more
permissive settings have been applied in the
kernel.perf_event_paranoid sysctl.

CVE-2022-1786

Kyle Zeng discovered a use-after-free in the io_uring subsystem
which way result in local privilege escalation to root.

CVE-2022-1789 / CVE-2022-1852

Yongkang Jia, Gaoning Pan and Qiuhao Li discovered two NULL pointer
...

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Package: linux
CVE ID: CVE-2022-0494 CVE-2022-0854 CVE-2022-1012 CVE-2022-1729

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