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Debian 3.0 DSA-1069-1 Critical: Kernel Remote Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey May 20, 2006
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The latest kernel patch for Debian addresses several critical vulnerabilities that may result in unauthorized code execution and service interruptions, both locally and remotely.
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Summary


CVE-2004-0427

A local denial of service vulnerability in do_fork() has been found.

CVE-2005-0489

A local denial of service vulnerability in proc memory handling has
been found.

CVE-2004-0394

A buffer overflow in the panic handling code has been found.

CVE-2004-0447

A local denial of service vulnerability through a null pointer
dereference in the IA64 process handling code has been found.

CVE-2004-0554

A local denial of service vulnerability through an infinite loop in
the signal handler code has been found.

CVE-2004-0565

An information leak in the context switch code has been found on
the IA64 architecture.

CVE-2004-0685

Unsafe use of copy_to_user in USB drivers may disclose sensitive
information.

CVE-2005-0001

A race condition in the i386 page fault handler may allow privilege
escalation.

CVE-2004-0883

Multiple vulnerabilities in the SMB filesystem code may allow denial
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