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Debian 9: DLA-2557-1 Critical: Linux-4.19 Denial of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2021
Dist Debian Esm H88
Alert notice DLA-2557-1 highlights security flaws in linux-4.19, necessitating prompt upgrades to avert potential threats.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks

Summary

A flaw was reported in the JFS filesystem code allowing a local
attacker with the ability to set extended attributes to cause a
denial of service.

CVE-2020-27825

Adam 'pi3' Zabrocki reported a use-after-free flaw in the ftrace
ring buffer resizing logic due to a race condition, which could
result in denial of service or information leak.

CVE-2020-27830

Shisong Qin reported a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the Speakup
screen reader core driver.

CVE-2020-28374

David Disseldorp discovered that the LIO SCSI target implementation
performed insufficient checking in certain XCOPY requests. An
attacker with access to a LUN and knowledge of Unit Serial Number
assignments can take advantage of this flaw to read and write to any
LIO backstore, regardless of the SCSI transport settings.

CVE-2020-29568 (XSA-349)

Michael Kurth and Pawel Wieczorkiewicz reported that frontends can
trigger OOM in backends by updating a watched path.

CVE-2020-29569 (XSA-350)

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: linux-4.19
Version: 4.19.171-2~deb9u1
CVE ID: CVE-2020-27815 CVE-2020-27825 CVE-2020-27830 CVE-2020-28374
Debian Bug: 970736 972345 977048 977615

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