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Debian DSA-1503 Critical: Local And Remote Kernel Issues

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2008
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Uncover both present and historical vulnerabilities in Debian's Linux kernel 2.4.27 that may result in Denial of Service (DoS) or unauthorized code execution. Take immediate action!
Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code

Summary


infamous41md reported multiple integer overflows in the Sbus PROM
driver that would allow for a DoS (Denial of Service) attack by a
local user, and possibly the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2006-4814

Doug Chapman discovered a potential local DoS (deadlock) in the mincore
function caused by improper lock handling.

CVE-2006-5753

Eric Sandeen provided a fix for a local memory corruption vulnerability
resulting from a misinterpretation of return values when operating on
inodes which have been marked bad.

CVE-2006-5823

LMH reported a potential local DoS which could be exploited by a malicious
user with the privileges to mount and read a corrupted cramfs filesystem.

CVE-2006-6053

LMH reported a potential local DoS which could be exploited by a malicious
user with the privileges to mount and read a corrupted ext3 filesystem.

CVE-2006-6054

LMH reported a potential local DoS which could be exploited by a malicious
user wi...

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