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Debian 3.16 Update: DLA-2068-1 Critical: Multiple Access Issues

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Calendar Grey January 17, 2020
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian 3.16.81-1 rectifies several Linux kernel flaws, affecting user rights and server processes.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, or information leak

Summary

The syzkaller tool discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in
the Android binder driver. A local user on a system with this
driver enabled could use this to cause a denial of service (memory
corruption or crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.
However, this driver is not enabled on Debian packaged kernels.

CVE-2019-10220

Various developers and researchers found that if a crafted file- system or malicious file server presented a directory with
filenames including a '/' character, this could confuse and
possibly defeat security checks in applications that read the
directory.

The kernel will now return an error when reading such a directory,
rather than passing the invalid filenames on to user-space.

CVE-2019-14895, CVE-2019-14901

ADLab of Venustech discovered potential heap buffer overflows in
the mwifiex wifi driver. On systems using this driver, a
malicious Wireless Access Point or adhoc/P2P peer could use these

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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: linux
Version: 3.16.81-1
CVE ID: CVE-2019-2215 CVE-2019-10220 CVE-2019-14895 CVE-2019-14896

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