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Debian 8: DLA-1884-1 Critical: Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey August 13, 2019
Dist Debian Esm H88
Ubuntu LTS: USN-4600-1 outlines multiple vulnerabilities related to the kernel and presents remedies for enhancing both security and performance.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks

Summary

Denis Andzakovic reported a missing type check in the IPv4 multicast
routing implementation. A user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (in
any user namespace) could use this for denial-of-service (memory
corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.

CVE-2018-20836

chenxiang reported a race condition in libsas, the kernel
subsystem supporting Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) devices, which
could lead to a use-after-free. It is not clear how this might be
exploited.

CVE-2019-1125

It was discovered that most x86 processors could speculatively
skip a conditional SWAPGS instruction used when entering the
kernel from user mode, and/or could speculatively execute it when
it should be skipped. This is a subtype of Spectre variant 1,
which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information from
the kernel or other processes. It has been mitigated by using
memory barriers to limit speculative execution. Systems using an

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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: linux
Version: 3.16.72-1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-18509 CVE-2018-20836 CVE-2019-1125 CVE-2019-3900

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