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Debian 5.0 Lenny DSA-1846-1 Critical: KVM Denial Of Service

Matt T. Yourst discovered an issue in the kvm subsystem. Local users with permission to manipulate /dev/kvm can cause a denial of service (hang) by providing an invalid cr3 value to the KVM_SET_SREGS call. . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1846-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Dann Frazier July 28, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : kvm Vulnerability : denial of service Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-2287 Matt T. Yourst discovered an issue in the kvm subsystem. Local users with permission to manipulate /dev/kvm can cause a denial of service (hang) by providing an invalid cr3 value to the KVM_SET_SREGS call. For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 72+dfsg-5~lenny2. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your kvm packages, and rebuild any kernel modules you have built from a kvm-source package version. Upgrade instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny - -------------------------------- Stable updates are available for amd64 and i386. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 3250251 899a66ae2ea94e994e06f637e1afef4a Size/MD5 checksum: 1340 e95d1e3129dd6eb2d7b139504a8682d5 Size/MD5 checksum: 4050822d3f4b490752c1db13affc506896f59 Architecture independent packages: Size/MD5 checksum: 157856 593b7d018dc15553d1c690c941ff0dd7 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) Size/MD5 checksum: 1105650 e29a433d9d83be7bf22dfb8297e3b63f i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 1034054 39113a71cf5fdbafcaed9f3f58ae2369 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb https://www.debian.org/security/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Package info: `apt-cache show ' and https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages . Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2172-4 covers a Linux kernel update fixing a race condition vulnerability that could grant unauthorized access to admin users. Debian Advisory,KVM Denial of Service,Package Fix. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

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