Debian: DSA 1011-1 Critical: Kernel-Patch-Vserver Exploit Risk

Bj�rn Steinbrink discovered that the chroot barrier is not set
correctly with util-vserver which may result in unauthorised
escapes from a vserver to the host system.

This vulnerability is limited to the 2.4 kernel patch included in
kernel-patch-vserver. The correction to this problem requires
updating the util-vserver package as well and installing a new
kernel built from the updated kernel-patch-vserver package.

CVE-2005-4418

The default policy of util-vserver is set to trust all unknown
capabilities instead of considering them as insecure.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain a
kernel-patch-vserver package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9.5.5 of kernel-patch-vserver and in version
0.30.204-5sarge3 of util-vserver.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3 of kernel-patch-vserver and in version 0.30.208-1 of
util-vserver.

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