[kernel-sec-discuss] r1179 - dsa-texts

[dannf at alioth.debian.org]

Author: dannf
Date: 2008-06-09 06:03:34 +0000 (Mon, 09 Jun 2008)
New Revision: 1179

Added:
   dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch6
Log:
new dsa text

Copied: dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch6 (from rev 1173, dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch5)
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--- dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch6	                        (rev 0)
+++ dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch6	2008-06-09 06:03:34 UTC (rev 1179)
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Debian Security Advisory DSA-1592-1                security at debian.org
+http://www.debian.org/security/                           dann frazier
+Jun 08, 2008                        http://www.debian.org/security/faq
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Package        : linux-2.6
+Vulnerability  : heap overflow
+Problem type   : local/remote
+Debian-specific: no
+CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2008-1673 CVE-2008-2358
+
+Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may
+lead to a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. The Common
+Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
+
+CVE-2008-1673
+
+    Wei Wang from McAfee reported a potential heap overflow in the ASN.1
+    decode code that is used by the SNMP NAT and CIFS subsystems.
+    Exploitation of this issue may lead to arbitrary code execution. Note
+    that this issue is not believed to be exploitable with the pre-built
+    kernel images provided by Debian, but it might be an issue for custom
+    images built from the Debian-provided source package.
+
+CVE-2008-2358
+
+    Brandon Edwards of McAfee Avert labs discovered an issue in the
+    DCCP subsystem. Due to missing feature length checks it is possible
+    to cause an overflow they may result in remote arbitrary code execution.
+
+For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
+2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch6.
+
+The linux-2.6/mipsel build was not yet available at the time of this advisory.
+This advisory will be updated when this this build becomes available.
+
+We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6, fai-kernels, and
+user-mode-linux 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
+
+The following matrix lists additional source packages that were rebuilt for
+compatability with or to take advantage of this update:
+
+                                             Debian 4.0 (etch)
+     fai-kernels                             1.17+etch.18etch6
+     user-mode-linux                         2.6.18-1um-2etch.18etch6
+
+You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
+footer to the proper configuration.
+
+Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
+-------------------------------
+
+Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
+
+
+  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>