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Debian Critical: DSA-5461-1 Privilege Escalation and DoS Issues

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Calendar Grey July 30, 2023
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The latest Debian Security Advisory DSA-5462-1 highlights severe vulnerabilities within the Linux kernel that require immediate responses.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks

Summary

CVE-2023-3390

A use-after-free flaw in the netfilter subsystem caused by incorrect
error path handling may result in denial of service or privilege
escalation.

CVE-2023-3610

A use-after-free flaw in the netfilter subsystem caused by incorrect
refcount handling on the table and chain destroy path may result in
denial of service or privilege escalation.

CVE-2023-20593

Tavis Ormandy discovered that under specific microarchitectural
circumstances, a vector register in AMD "Zen 2" CPUs may not be
written to 0 correctly. This flaw allows an attacker to leak
sensitive information across concurrent processes, hyper threads
and virtualized guests.

For details please refer to
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This issue can also be mitigated by a microcode update through the
amd64-microcode package or a system firmware (BIOS/UEFI) update.
However, the initial microcode release by AMD only provides
updates for second generation EPYC CPUs. Various Ryzen CPUs are
al...

Read the Full Advisory

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Package: linux
CVE ID: CVE-2023-3390 CVE-2023-3610 CVE-2023-20593

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