[kernel-sec-discuss] r1270 - dsa-texts

Tue Dec 2 21:49:06 UTC 2008

Author: dannf
Date: 2008-12-02 21:49:06 +0000 (Tue, 02 Dec 2008)
New Revision: 1270

Added:
   dsa-texts/2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.7
Log:
new dsa draft

Copied: dsa-texts/2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.7 (from rev 1266, dsa-texts/2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.6)
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--- dsa-texts/2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.7	                        (rev 0)
+++ dsa-texts/2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.7	2008-12-02 21:49:06 UTC (rev 1270)
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Debian Security Advisory DSA-16XX-1                security at debian.org
+http://www.debian.org/security/       dann frazier, Alexander Prinsier
+Dec XX, 2008                        http://www.debian.org/security/faq
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Package        : linux-2.6.24
+Vulnerability  : denial of service/privilege escalation
+Problem type   : local/remote
+Debian-specific: no
+CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2008-3528 CVE-2008-4554 CVE-2008-4576 CVE-2008-4618
+                 CVE-2008-4933 CVE-2008-4934 CVE-2008-5025 CVE-2008-5029
+                 CVE-2008-5134 CVE-2008-5182 CVE-2008-5300
+
+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-2008-3528
+
+    Eugene Teo reported a local DoS issue in the ext2 and ext3 filesystems.
+    Local users who have been granted the privileges necessary to mount
+    a filesystem would be able to craft a corrupted filesystem that
+    causes the kernel to output error messages in an infinit loop.
+
+CVE-2008-4554
+
+    Milos Szeredi reported that the usage of splice() on files opened
+    with O_APPEND allows users to write to the file at arbitrary offsets,
+    allowing a bypass of possible assumed semantics of the O_APPEND flag.
+
+CVE-2008-4576
+
+    Vlad Yasevich reported an issue in the SCTP subsystem that may allow
+    remote users to cause a local DoS by triggering a kernel oops.
+
+CVE-2008-4618
+
+    Wei Yongjun reported an issue in the SCTP subsystem that may allow
+    remote users to cause a local DoS by triggering a kernel panic.
+
+CVE-2008-4933
+
+    Eric Sesterhenn reported a local DoS issue in the hfsplus filesystem.
+    Local users who have been granted the privileges necessary to mount
+    a filesystem would be able to craft a corrupted filesystem that
+    causes the kernel to overrun a buffer, resulting in a system oops or
+    memory corruption.
+
+CVE-2008-4934
+
+    Eric Sesterhenn reported a local DoS issue in the hfsplus filesystem.
+    Local users who have been granted the privileges necessary to mount
+    a filesystem would be able to craft a corrupted filesystem that
+    results in a kernel oops.
+
+CVE-2008-5025
+
+    Eric Sesterhenn reported a local DoS issue in the hfs filesystem.
+    Local users who have been granted the privileges necessary to mount
+    a filesystem would be able to craft a filesystem with a corrupted
+    catalog name length, resulting in a system oops or memory corruption.
+
+CVE-2008-5029
+
+    Andrea Bittau reported a DoS issue in the unix socket subsystem that
+    allows a local user to cause memory corruption, resulting in a kernel
+    panic.
+
+CVE-2008-5134
+
+    Johannes Berg reported a remote DoS issue in the libertas wireless driver,
+    which can be caused by a specially crafted beacon/probe response.
+
+CVE-2008-5182
+
+    Al Viro reported race conditions in the inotify subsystem that may
+    allow local users to acquire elevated privileges.
+
+CVE-2008-5300
+
+    dann frazier reported a DoS condition that allows local users to cause
+    the out of memory handler to kill off privileged processes or trigger
+    soft lockups due to a starvation issue in the unix socket subsystem.
+
+For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
+version 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.7.
+
+We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6.24 packages.
+
+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 4.0 alias etch
+-------------------------------
+
+ XXXX
+
+  These changes will probably be included in the stable distribution on
+  its next update.
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
+For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
+Mailing list: debian-security-announce at lists.debian.org
+Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>


