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Debian Buster: DLA-3349-1 Critical: Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey March 2, 2023
Dist Debian Esm H88
Debian DSA-5001-1 fixes vulnerabilities in linux-5.15 kernel, potentially enabling privilege escalation and Denial of Service.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that
may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information
leaks.

CVE-2022-2873

Zheyu Ma discovered that an out-of-bounds memory access flaw in
the Intel iSMT SMBus 2.0 host controller driver may result in
denial of service (system crash).

CVE-2022-3545

It was discovered that the Netronome Flow Processor (NFP) driver
contained a use-after-free flaw in area_cache_get(), which may
result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2022-3623

A race condition when looking up a CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb page
may result in denial of service or an information leak.

CVE-2022-4696

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in the io_uring
subsystem.

CVE-2022-36280

An out-of-bounds memory write vulnerability was discovered in the
vmwgfx driver, which may allow a local unprivileged user to cause
a denial of service (system crash).

CVE-2022-41218

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Package: linux-5.10
Version: 5.10.162-1~deb10u1
CVE ID: CVE-2022-2873 CVE-2022-3545 CVE-2022-3623 CVE-2022-4696
Debian Bug: 825141 1008501 1027430 1027483

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