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Debian 3.1 DSA-1504 Critical: Kernel 2.6.8 Denial of Service Risks

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2008
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Multiple local and remote security flaws identified in the Linux kernel have the potential to result in Denial of Service (DoS) or allow unauthorized arbitrary code execution.
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


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-2006-6054

LMH reported a potential local DoS which could be exploited by a malicious
user with the privileges to mount and read a corrupted ext2 filesystem.

CVE-2006-6058

LMH reported an issue in the minix filesystem that allows local users
with mount privileges to create a DoS (printk flood) by mounting a
specially crafted corrupt filesystem.

CVE-2006-7203

OpenVZ Linux kernel team reported an issue in the smbfs filesystem which
can be exploited by local users to cause a DoS (oops) during mount.

CVE-2007-1353

Ilja van Sprundel discovered that kernel memory could be leaked via the
Bluetooth setsockopt call due to an uninitialized stack buffer. This
could be used by local attackers to read the contents of sensitive kernel
memory.

CVE-2007-2172

Thomas Graf reported a ty...

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