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Debian 9: DLA-2714-1 Critical: Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2021
Dist Debian Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5234-1 highlights severe vulnerabilities in the operating system kernel, posing risks to system stability and user safety. Immediate update suggested.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks

Summary

This update is not yet available for the armhf (ARM EABI hard-float)
architecture.

CVE-2020-36311

A flaw was discovered in the KVM subsystem for AMD CPUs, allowing an
attacker to cause a denial of service by triggering destruction of a
large SEV VM.

CVE-2021-3609

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

CVE-2021-33909

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

Norbert Slusarek discovered an information leak in the CAN BCM

Read the Full Advisory


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Package: linux-4.19
Version: 4.19.194-3~deb9u1
CVE ID: CVE-2020-36311 CVE-2021-3609 CVE-2021-33909 CVE-2021-34693
Debian Bug: 990072

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