[kernel-sec-discuss] r1360 - dsa-texts

[Dann Frazier]

Author: dannf
Date: 2009-05-05 06:53:00 +0000 (Tue, 05 May 2009)
New Revision: 1360

Added:
   dsa-texts/2.6.26-15lenny1
Log:
new text

Copied: dsa-texts/2.6.26-15lenny1 (from rev 1355, dsa-texts/2.6.26-13lenny2)
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--- dsa-texts/2.6.26-15lenny1	                        (rev 0)
+++ dsa-texts/2.6.26-15lenny1	2009-05-05 06:53:00 UTC (rev 1360)
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Debian Security Advisory DSA-XXXX-1                security at debian.org
+http://www.debian.org/security/                           dann frazier
+May XX, 2009                        http://www.debian.org/security/faq
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Package        : linux-2.6
+Vulnerability  : denial of service/privilege escalation/sensitive memory leak
+Problem type   : local/remote
+Debian-specific: no
+CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2009-0028 CVE-2009-0834 CVE-2009-0835 CVE-2009-0859
+                 CVE-2009-1046 CVE-2009-1072 CVE-2009-1184 CVE-2009-1192
+                 CVE-2009-1242 CVE-2009-1265 CVE-2009-1337 CVE-2009-1338
+                 CVE-2009-1439
+
+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-2009-0028
+
+    Chris Evans discovered a situation in which a child process can
+    send an arbitrary signal to its parent.
+
+CVE-2009-0834
+
+    Roland McGrath discovered an issue on amd64 kernels that allows
+    local users to circumvent system call audit configurations which
+    filter based on the syscall numbers or argument details.
+
+CVE-2009-0835
+CVE-2009-0859
+
+    Jiri Olsa discovered that a local user can cause a denial of
+    service (system hang) using a SHM_INFO shmctl call on kernels
+    compiled with CONFIG_SHMEM disabled. This issue does not affect
+    prebuilt Debian kernels.
+
+CVE-2009-1046
+
+    Mikulas Patocka reported an issue in the console subsystem that
+    allows a local user to cause memory corruption by selecting a
+    small number of 3-byte UTF-8 characters.
+
+CVE-2009-1072
+CVE-2009-1184
+CVE-2009-1192
+
+    Shaohua Li reported an issue in the AGP subsystem they may allow
+    local users to read sensitive kernel memory due to a leak of
+    uninitialized memory.
+
+CVE-2009-1242
+
+    Benjamin Gilbert reported a local denial of service vulnerability
+    in the KVM VMX implementation that allows local users to trigger
+    an oops.
+
+CVE-2009-1265
+
+    Thomas Pollet reported an overflow in the af_rose implementation
+    that allows remote attackers to retrieve uninitialized kernel
+    memory that may contain sensitive data.
+
+CVE-2009-1337
+
+    Oleg Nesterov discovered an issue in the exit_notify function that
+    allows local users to send an arbitrary signal to a process by
+    running a program that modifies the exit_signal field and then
+    uses an exec system call to launch a setuid application.
+
+CVE-2009-1338
+
+    Daniel Hokka Zakrisson discovered that a kill(-1) is permitted to
+    reach processes outside of the current process namespace.
+   
+CVE-2009-1439
+
+    Pavan Naregundi reported an issue in the CIFS filesystem code that
+    allows remote users to overwrite memory via a long
+    nativeFileSystem field in a Tree Connect response during mount.
+
+For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
+version 2.6.26-13lenny2.
+
+For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems, where applicable,
+will be fixed in future updates to linux-2.6 and linux-2.6.24.
+
+We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 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 5.0 alias lenny
+--------------------------------
+
+Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
+
+XX FILL IN XX
+
+  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>