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author | Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org> | 2009-05-05 16:01:06 +0000 |
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committer | Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org> | 2009-05-05 16:01:06 +0000 |
commit | 8c6045da7261fb7416e7a4642d64891b75c235f3 (patch) | |
tree | 12b52228a77beb8a24dfd4aa9388870a5717be01 | |
parent | 03de66fffc1911dc4f3e99f351b7ab82abe9ab9a (diff) |
some minor spelling, grammar and formatting fixes
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel-sec@1362 e094ebfe-e918-0410-adfb-c712417f3574
-rw-r--r-- | dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-24etch2 | 39 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-24etch2 b/dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-24etch2 index 8e35fa42..42c2e8fc 100644 --- a/dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-24etch2 +++ b/dsa-texts/2.6.18.dfsg.1-24etch2 @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-4307 CVE-2008-5395 CVE-2008-5701 CVE-2008-5702 CVE-2009-1336 CVE-2009-1337 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: +may lead to denial of service, privilege escalation, or information +leak. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the +following problems: CVE-2008-4307 @@ -28,14 +28,14 @@ CVE-2008-4307 CVE-2008-5395 Helge Deller discovered a denial of service condition that allows - local users on PA-RISC systems to crash a system by attempting to - unwind a stack contiaining userspace addresses. + local users on PA-RISC to crash the system by attempting to unwind + a stack contiaining userspace addresses. CVE-2008-5701 - Vlad Malov reported an issue on 64-bit MIPS systems where a local - user could cause a system crash by crafing a malicious binary - which makes o32 syscalls with a number less than 4000. + Vlad Malov reported an issue on 64-bit MIPS where a local user + could cause a system crash by crafting a malicious binary which + makes o32 syscalls with a number less than 4000. CVE-2008-5702 @@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ CVE-2008-5702 CVE-2008-5713 - Flavio Leitner discovered that a local user can cause a denial - of service by generating large amounts of traffic on a large SMP + Flavio Leitner discovered that a local user can cause a denial of + service by generating large amounts of traffic on a large SMP system, resulting in soft lockups. CVE-2009-0028 @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ CVE-2009-0031 Vegard Nossum discovered a memory leak in the keyctl subsystem that allows local users to cause a denial of service by consuming - all of kernel memory. + all available kernel memory. CVE-2009-0065 @@ -117,9 +117,10 @@ CVE-2009-1265 CVE-2009-1336 - Trond Myklebust reported an issue in the encode_lookup() function in - the nfs server subsystem that allows local users to cause a denial - of service (oops in encode_lookup()) by use of a long filename. + Trond Myklebust reported an issue in the encode_lookup() function + in the nfs server subsystem that allows local users to cause a + denial of service (oops in encode_lookup()) by use of a long + filename. CVE-2009-1337 @@ -142,11 +143,11 @@ user-mode-linux packages. Note: Debian carefully tracks all known security issues across every linux kernel package in all releases under active security support. -However, given the high frequency at which low-severity -security issues are discovered in the kernel and the resource -requirements of doing an update, updates for lower priority issues -will normally not be released for all kernels at the same time. Rather, -they will be released in a staggered or "leap-frog" fashion. +However, given the high frequency at which low-severity security +issues are discovered in the kernel and the resource requirements of +doing an update, updates for lower priority issues will normally not +be released for all kernels at the same time. Rather, they will be +released in a staggered or "leap-frog" fashion. Upgrade instructions -------------------- |