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Debian 9 Stretch DLA-2713-2 Critical: Kernel Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2021
Dist Debian Esm H88
Several security flaws, including privilege escalation and data exposure, require immediate patches for the Debian Linux kernel.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks

Summary

CVE-2021-3609

Norbert Slusarek reported a race condition vulnerability in the CAN
BCM networking protocol, allowing a local attacker to escalate
privileges.

CVE-2021-21781

"Lilith >_>" of Cisco Talos discovered that the Arm initialisation
code does not fully initialise the "sigpage" that is mapped into
user-space processes to support signal handling. This could
result in leaking sensitive information, particularly when the
system is rebooted.

CVE-2021-33909

The Qualys Research Labs discovered a size_t-to-int conversion
vulnerability in the Linux kernel's filesystem layer. An
unprivileged local attacker able to create, mount, and then delete a
deep directory structure whose total path length exceeds 1GB, can
take advantage of this flaw for privilege escalation.

Details can be found in the Qualys advisory at
https://www.qualys.com/2021/07/20/cve-2021-33909/sequoia-local-privilege-escalation-linux.txt

CVE-2021-34693

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: linux
Version: 4.9.272-2
CVE ID: CVE-2021-3609 CVE-2021-21781 CVE-2021-33909 CVE-2021-34693
Debian Bug: 990072

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