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Debian: DLA-1885-1 Moderate: Linux 4.9 Security Update Details

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2019
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian 8 LTS update mitigates critical vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, targeting issues like privilege escalation and denial of service, enhancing overall security.
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-2018-5995

ADLab of VenusTech discovered that the kernel logged the virtual
addresses assigned to per-CPU data, which could make it easier to
exploit other vulnerabilities.

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-2018-20856

Xiao Jin reported a potential double-free in the block subsystem,
in case an error occurs while initialising the I/O scheduler for a
block device. It is not clear how this might be exploited.

CVE-2019-1125

It was discovered that most x86 processors could speculatively

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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: linux-4.9
Version: 4.9.168-1+deb9u5~deb8u1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-18509 CVE-2018-5995 CVE-2018-20836 CVE-2018-20856

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