[kernel-sec-discuss] r2053 - dsa-texts

Micah Anderson micah at alioth.debian.org
Fri Nov 26 19:47:50 UTC 2010


Author: micah
Date: 2010-11-26 19:47:49 +0000 (Fri, 26 Nov 2010)
New Revision: 2053

Modified:
   dsa-texts/2.6.26-26lenny1
Log:
fix some spelling issues

Modified: dsa-texts/2.6.26-26lenny1
===================================================================
--- dsa-texts/2.6.26-26lenny1	2010-11-26 19:31:50 UTC (rev 2052)
+++ dsa-texts/2.6.26-26lenny1	2010-11-26 19:47:49 UTC (rev 2053)
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@
 
 CVE-2010-2963
 
-    Kees Cook discovered an issue in v4l 32-bit compatibility layer for
-    64-bit systems that allows local users with /dev/video write permission
-    to overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, potentially leading to a privelege
-    escalation. On Debian systems, access to /dev/video devices is restricted
-    to members of the 'video' group by default.
+    Kees Cook discovered an issue in the v4l 32-bit compatibility layer for
+    64-bit systems that allows local users with /dev/video write permission to
+    overwrite arbitrary kernel memory, potentially leading to a privilege
+    escalation. On Debian systems, access to /dev/video devices is restricted to
+    members of the 'video' group by default.
 
 CVE-2010-3067
 
@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@
 CVE-2010-3874
 
     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the Control Area Network (CAN)
-    subsystem on 64-bit systems. Local users maybe able to cause a denial
-    of service (heap corruption).
+    subsystem on 64-bit systems. Local users may be able to cause a denial of
+    service (heap corruption).
 
 CVE-2010-3875
 
@@ -184,14 +184,14 @@
 CVE-2010-4080
 
     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the ALSA driver for RME Hammerfall
-    DSP audio devices.  Local users with access to the audio device can
+    DSP audio devices. Local users with access to the audio device can
     obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory via the
     SNDRV_HDSP_IOCTL_GET_CONFIG_INFO ioctl.
 
 CVE-2010-4081
 
     Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the ALSA driver for RME Hammerfall
-    DSP MADI audio devices.  Local users with access to the audio device can
+    DSP MADI audio devices. Local users with access to the audio device can
     obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory via the
     SNDRV_HDSP_IOCTL_GET_CONFIG_INFO ioctl.
 
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
 
 CVE-2010-4164
 
-    Dan Rosenberg discoverd an issue in the X.25 network protocol. Remote users
+    Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the X.25 network protocol. Remote users
     can achieve a denial of service (infinite loop) by taking advantage of an
     integer underflow in the facility parsing code.
 




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