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authorMicah Anderson <micah@debian.org>2010-11-26 19:49:40 +0000
committerMicah Anderson <micah@debian.org>2010-11-26 19:49:40 +0000
commitdf8ba7a5c12b733df0f5128a6dac96bce354ed5c (patch)
tree1edb3576c9c51b655b08b9b1de28276546a9aeec /dsa-texts/2.6.26-26lenny1
parent8222fb4197a52178cefc9e9a90eeb1e48dd1f488 (diff)
standardize format justification
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel-sec@2054 e094ebfe-e918-0410-adfb-c712417f3574
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@@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ CVE Id(s) : CVE-2010-2963 CVE-2010-3067 CVE-2010-3296 CVE-2010-3297
CVE-2010-4081 CVE-2010-4083 CVE-2010-4164
Debian Bug(s) :
-Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that
-may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak.
-The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
-problems:
+Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead
+to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. The Common
+Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2010-2963
@@ -33,8 +32,8 @@ CVE-2010-2963
CVE-2010-3067
- Tavis Ormandy discovered an issue in the io_submit system call. Local
- users can cause an integer overflow resulting in a denial of service.
+ Tavis Ormandy discovered an issue in the io_submit system call. Local users
+ can cause an integer overflow resulting in a denial of service.
CVE-2010-3296
@@ -54,34 +53,33 @@ CVE-2010-3310
CVE-2010-3432
- Thomas Dreibholz discovered an issue in the SCTP protocol that permits
- a remote user to cause a denial of service (kernel panic).
+ Thomas Dreibholz discovered an issue in the SCTP protocol that permits a
+ remote user to cause a denial of service (kernel panic).
CVE-2010-3437
Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the pktcdvd driver. Local users with
- permission to open /dev/pktcdvd/control can obtain the contents of
- sensitive kernel memory or cause a denial of service. By default on
- Debian systems, this access is restricted to members of the group 'cdrom'.
+ permission to open /dev/pktcdvd/control can obtain the contents of sensitive
+ kernel memory or cause a denial of service. By default on Debian systems,
+ this access is restricted to members of the group 'cdrom'.
CVE-2010-3442
- Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the ALSA sound system. Local users
- with permission to open /dev/snd/controlC0 can create an integer overflow
+ Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the ALSA sound system. Local users with
+ permission to open /dev/snd/controlC0 can create an integer overflow
condition that causes a denial of service. By default on Debian systems,
this access is restricted to members of the group 'audio'.
CVE-2010-3448
Dan Jacobson reported an issue in the thinkpad-acpi driver. On certain
- Thinkpad systems, local users can cause a denial of service (X.org crash)
- by reading /proc/acpi/ibm/video.
+ Thinkpad systems, local users can cause a denial of service (X.org crash) by
+ reading /proc/acpi/ibm/video.
CVE-2010-3477
- Jeff Mahoney discovered an issue in the Traffic Policing (act_police)
- module that allows local users to obtain the contents of sensitive kernel
- memory.
+ Jeff Mahoney discovered an issue in the Traffic Policing (act_police) module
+ that allows local users to obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory.
CVE-2010-3705
@@ -92,14 +90,14 @@ CVE-2010-3705
CVE-2010-3848
Nelson Elhage discovered an issue in the Econet protocol. Local users can
- cause a stack overflow condition with large msg->msgiovlen values that
- can result in a denial of service or privilege escalation.
+ cause a stack overflow condition with large msg->msgiovlen values that can
+ result in a denial of service or privilege escalation.
CVE-2010-3849
Nelson Elhage discovered an issue in the Econet protocol. Local users can
- cause a denial of service (oops) if a NULL remote addr value is passed
- as a parameter to sendmsg().
+ cause a denial of service (oops) if a NULL remote addr value is passed as a
+ parameter to sendmsg().
CVE-2010-3850
@@ -109,15 +107,15 @@ CVE-2010-3850
CVE-2010-3858
- Brad Spengler reported an issue in the setup_arg_pages() function. Due to
- a bounds-checking failure, local users can create a denial of service
- (kernel oops).
+ Brad Spengler reported an issue in the setup_arg_pages() function. Due to a
+ bounds-checking failure, local users can create a denial of service (kernel
+ oops).
CVE-2010-3859
- Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the TIPC protocol. When the tipc
- module is loaded, local users can gain elevated privileges via the
- sendmsg() system call.
+ Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the TIPC protocol. When the tipc module
+ is loaded, local users can gain elevated privileges via the sendmsg() system
+ call.
CVE-2010-3873
@@ -132,24 +130,24 @@ CVE-2010-3874
CVE-2010-3875
- Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the AX.25 protocol. Local users
- can obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory.
+ Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the AX.25 protocol. Local users can
+ obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory.
CVE-2010-3876
- Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the Packet protocol. Local users
- can obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory.
+ Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the Packet protocol. Local users can
+ obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory.
CVE-2010-3877
- Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the TIPC protocol. Local users
- can obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory.
+ Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the TIPC protocol. Local users can
+ obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory.
CVE-2010-3880
Nelson Elhage discovered an issue in the INET_DIAG subsystem. Local users
- can cause the kernel to execute unaudited INET_DIAG bytecode, resulting
- in a denial of service.
+ can cause the kernel to execute unaudited INET_DIAG bytecode, resulting in a
+ denial of service.
CVE-2010-4072
@@ -176,30 +174,29 @@ CVE-2010-4078
CVE-2010-4079
- Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the ivtvfb driver used for the
- Hauppauge PVR-350 card. Local users with access to the framebuffer
- device can obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory via the
- FBIOGET_VBLANK ioctl.
+ Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the ivtvfb driver used for the Hauppauge
+ PVR-350 card. Local users with access to the framebuffer device can obtain
+ the contents of sensitive kernel memory via the FBIOGET_VBLANK ioctl.
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
- obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory via the
- SNDRV_HDSP_IOCTL_GET_CONFIG_INFO ioctl.
+ Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the ALSA driver for RME Hammerfall 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
- obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory via the
+ 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 obtain
+ the contents of sensitive kernel memory via the
SNDRV_HDSP_IOCTL_GET_CONFIG_INFO ioctl.
CVE-2010-4083
- Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the semctl system call. Local users
- can obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory through usage of the
- semid_ds structure.
+ Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the semctl system call. Local users can
+ obtain the contents of sensitive kernel memory through usage of the semid_ds
+ structure.
CVE-2010-4164
@@ -207,14 +204,13 @@ CVE-2010-4164
can achieve a denial of service (infinite loop) by taking advantage of an
integer underflow in the facility parsing code.
-For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
-version 2.6.26-26lenny1.
+For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version
+2.6.26-26lenny1.
-We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 and user-mode-linux
-packages.
+We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 and user-mode-linux packages.
-The following matrix lists additional source packages that were
-rebuilt for compatibility with or to take advantage of this update:
+The following matrix lists additional source packages that were rebuilt for
+compatibility with or to take advantage of this update:
Debian 5.0 (lenny)
user-mode-linux 2.6.26-1um-2+26lenny1

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