Debian: kernel 2.2.x Privilege escalation vulnerability DSA-453-1
Summary
Paul Starzetz and Wojciech Purczynski of isec.pl discovered a critical
security vulnerability in the memory management code of Linux inside
the mremap(2) system call. Due to flushing the TLB (Translation
Lookaside Buffer, an address cache) too early it is possible for an
attacker to trigger a local root exploit.
The attack vectors for 2.4.x and 2.2.x kernels are exclusive for the
respective kernel series, though. We formerly believed that the
exploitable vulnerability in 2.4.x does not exist in 2.2.x which is
still true. However, it turned out that a second (sort of)
vulnerability is indeed exploitable in 2.2.x, but not in 2.4.x, with a
different exploit, of course.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
the following versions and architectures:
kernel-source-2.2.20 source 2.2.20-5woody3
kernel-image-2.2.20-i386 i386 2.2.20-5woody5
kernel-image-2.2.20-reiserfs-i386 i386 2.2.20-4woody1
kernel-image-2.2.20-amiga m68k 2.20-4
kernel-image-2.2.20-atari m68k 2.2.20-3
kernel-image-2.2.20-bvme6000 m68k 2.2.20-3
kernel-image-2.2.20-mac m68k 2.2.20-3
kernel-image-2.2.20-mvme147 m68k 2.2.20-3
kernel-image-2.2.20-mvme16x m68k 2.2.20-3
kernel-patch-2.2.20-powerpc powerpc 2.2.20-3woody1
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon
for the architectures that still ship a 2.2.x kernel package.
We recommend that you upgrade your Linux kernel package.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
Source archives:
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Architecture independent components:
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Intel IA-32 architecture:
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Motorola 680x0 architecture:
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PowerPC architecture:
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These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show
