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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2389-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Dann Frazier January 15, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : linux-2.6 Vulnerability : privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak Problem type : local/remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2011-2183 CVE-2011-2213 CVE-2011-2898 CVE-2011-3353 CVE-2011-4077 CVE-2011-4110 CVE-2011-4127 CVE-2011-4611 CVE-2011-4622 CVE-2011-4914 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2011-2183 Andrea Righi reported an issue in KSM, a memory-saving de-duplication feature. By exploiting a race with exiting tasks, local users can cause a kernel oops, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2011-2213 Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the INET socket monitoring interface. Local users could cause a denial of service by injecting code and causing the kernel to execute an infinite loop. CVE-2011-2898 Eric Dumazet reported an information leak in the raw packet socket implementation. CVE-2011-3353 Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a local denial of service issue issue in the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support in the linux kernel. Local users could cause a buffer overflow, leading to a kernel oops and resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2011-4077 Carlos Maiolinoreported an issue in the XFS filesystem. A local user with the ability to mount a filesystem could corrupt memory resulting in a denial of service or possibly gain elevated privileges. CVE-2011-4110 David Howells reported an issue in the kernel's access key retention system which allow local users to cause a kernel oops leading to a denial of service. CVE-2011-4127 Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat reported an issue in the ioctl passthrough support for SCSI devices. Users with permission to access restricted portions of a device (e.g. a partition or a logical volume) can obtain access to the entire device by way of the SG_IO ioctl. This could be exploited by a local user or privileged VM guest to achieve a privilege escalation. CVE-2011-4611 Maynard Johnson reported an issue with the perf support on POWER7 systems that allows local users to cause a denial of service. CVE-2011-4622 Jan Kiszka reported an issue in the KVM PIT timer support. Local users with the permission to use KVM can cause a denial of service by starting a PIT timer without first setting up the irqchip. CVE-2011-4914 Ben Hutchings reported various bounds checking issues within the ROSE protocol support in the kernel. Remote users could possibly use this to gain access to sensitive memory or cause a denial of service. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.32-39squeeze1. Updates for issues impacting the oldstable distribution (lenny) will be available soon. The following matrix lists additional source packages that were rebuilt for compatibility with or to take advantage of this update: Debian 6.0 (squeeze) user-mode-linux 2.6.32-1um-4+39squeeze1 We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 and user-mode-linux packages. Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions canbe found at: http://www.debian.org/security/ Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Explore crucial security updates for the Linux kernel that tackle issues like privilege escalation and denial of service in Debian systems to safeguard data integrity and combat threats. Linux Kernel Security, Debian Security Update, Denial of Service Fix. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 16, 2012
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