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Debian 4.0 DSA-1588-1 Critical: Kernel Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey May 27, 2008
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Crucial safety patch for Debian OS kernel addresses several denial of service flaws. Users should upgrade immediately.
Johannes Bauer discovered an integer overflow condition in the hrtimer subsystem on 64-bit systems

Summary


Johannes Bauer discovered an integer overflow condition in the hrtimer
subsystem on 64-bit systems. This can be exploited by local users to
trigger a denial of service (DoS) by causing the kernel to execute an
infinite loop.

CVE-2008-1615

Jan Kratochvil reported a local denial of service condition that
permits local users on systems running the amd64 flavor kernel
to cause a system crash.

CVE-2008-2136

Paul Harks discovered a memory leak in the Simple Internet Transition
(SIT) code used for IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels. This can be exploited
by remote users to cause a denial of service condition.

CVE-2008-2137

David Miller and Jan Lieskovsky discovered issues with the virtual
address range checking of mmaped regions on the sparc architecture
that may be exploited by local users to cause a denial of service.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch5.

Builds for linux-2.6/s390...

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