[kernel-sec-discuss] r1742 - dsa-texts

Tue Feb 23 00:21:00 UTC 2010

Author: dannf
Date: 2010-02-23 00:20:57 +0000 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010)
New Revision: 1742

Added:
   dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-26etch2
Log:
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Copied: dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-26etch2 (from rev 1741, dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-26etch1)
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--- dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-26etch2	                        (rev 0)
+++ dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-26etch2	2010-02-23 00:20:57 UTC (rev 1742)
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+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+Debian Security Advisory DSA-XXXX-1                security at debian.org
+http://www.debian.org/security/                           Dann Frazier
+February 23, 2010                   http://www.debian.org/security/faq
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Package        : linux-2.6
+Vulnerability  : privilege escalation/denial of service
+Problem type   : local/remote
+Debian-specific: no
+CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2009-3080 CVE-2009-3726 CVE-2009-4005 CVE-2009-4020
+                 CVE-2009-4021 CVE-2009-4536 CVE-2010-0007 CVE-2010-0410
+                 CVE-2010-0415 CVE-2010-0622
+
+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-2009-3080
+
+    Dave Jones reported an issue in the gdth SCSI driver. A missing
+    check for negative offsets in ioctl called could be exploited
+    by local users to create a denial of service or potentially gain
+    elevated privileges.
+
+CVE-2009-3726
+
+    Trond Myklebust reported an issue where a malicious NFS server
+    could cause a denial of service condition on its clients by
+    returning incorrect attributes during an open call.
+
+CVE-2009-4005
+
+    Roel Kluin discovered an issue in the hfc_usb driver, an ISDN driver
+    for Colognechip HFC-S USB chip. A potential read overflow exists which
+    may allow remote users to cause a denial of service condition (oops).
+    
+
+CVE-2009-4020
+
+    Amerigo Wang discovered an issue in the HFS filesystem that would
+    allow a denial of service by a local user who has sufficient privileges
+    to mount a specially crafted filesystem.
+    
+CVE-2009-4021
+
+    Anana V. Avati discovered an issue in the fuse subsystem. If the
+    system is sufficiently low on memory, a local user can cause the
+    kernel to dereference an invalid pointer resulting in a denial of
+    service (oops) and potentially an escalation of privileges.
+
+CVE-2009-4536
+
+    Fabian Yamaguchi reported an issue in the e1000 driver for Intel
+    gigabit network adapters which allow remote users to bypass packet
+    filters using specially crafted ethernet frames.
+
+CVE-2010-0007
+
+    Florian Westphal reported a lack of capability checking in the
+    ebtables netfilter subsystem. If the ebtables module is loaded,
+    local users can add and modify ebtables rules.
+
+CVE-2010-0410
+
+     Sebastian Krahmer discovered an issue in the netlink connector
+     subsystem that permits local users to allocate large amounts of
+     system memory resulting in a denial of service (out of memory).
+
+CVE-2010-0415
+
+    Ramon de Carvalho Valle discovered an issue in the sys_move_pages
+    interface, limited to amd64, ia64 and powerpc64 flavors in Debian.
+    Local users can exploit this issue to cause a denial of service
+    (system crash) or gain access to sensitive kernel memory.
+
+CVE-2010-0622
+
+    Jermome Marchand reported an issue in the futex subsystem
+    that allows a local user to force an invalid futex state
+    which results in a denial of service (oops).
+
+For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
+version 2.6.18.dfsg.1-26etch2.
+
+We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6, fai-kernels, and
+user-mode-linux packages.
+
+Note: Debian 'etch' includes linux kernel packages based upon both the
+2.6.18 and 2.6.24 linux releases.  All known security issues are
+carefully tracked against both packages and both packages will receive
+security updates until security support for Debian 'etch'
+concludes. However, given the high frequency at which low-severity
+security issues are discovered in the kernel and the resource
+requirements of doing an update, lower severity 2.6.18 and 2.6.24
+updates will typically release in a staggered or "leap-frog" fashion.
+
+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.26etch2
+     user-mode-linux                         2.6.18-1um-2etch.26etch2
+
+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
+-------------------------------
+
+Oldstable updates are available for alpha, [...]
+
+  These changes will probably be included in the oldstable 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>


