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Debian Security Advisory DSA-16XX-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ dann frazier, Alexander Prinsier
Dec XX, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : linux-2.6.24
Vulnerability : denial of service/privilege escalation
Problem type : local/remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-3528 CVE-2008-4554 CVE-2008-4576 CVE-2008-4618
CVE-2008-4933 CVE-2008-4934 CVE-2008-5025 CVE-2008-5029
CVE-2008-5134 CVE-2008-5182 CVE-2008-5300
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-2008-3528
Eugene Teo reported a local DoS issue in the ext2 and ext3
filesystems. Local users who have been granted the privileges
necessary to mount a filesystem would be able to craft a corrupted
filesystem that causes the kernel to output error messages in an
infinite loop.
CVE-2008-4554
Milos Szeredi reported that the usage of splice() on files opened
with O_APPEND allows users to write to the file at arbitrary
offsets, enabling a bypass of possible assumed semantics of the
O_APPEND flag.
CVE-2008-4576
Vlad Yasevich reported an issue in the SCTP subsystem that may
allow remote users to cause a local DoS by triggering a kernel
oops.
CVE-2008-4618
Wei Yongjun reported an issue in the SCTP subsystem that may allow
remote users to cause a local DoS by triggering a kernel panic.
CVE-2008-4933
Eric Sesterhenn reported a local DoS issue in the hfsplus
filesystem. Local users who have been granted the privileges
necessary to mount a filesystem would be able to craft a corrupted
filesystem that causes the kernel to overrun a buffer, resulting
in a system oops or memory corruption.
CVE-2008-4934
Eric Sesterhenn reported a local DoS issue in the hfsplus
filesystem. Local users who have been granted the privileges
necessary to mount a filesystem would be able to craft a corrupted
filesystem that results in a kernel oops due to an unchecked
return value.
CVE-2008-5025
Eric Sesterhenn reported a local DoS issue in the hfs filesystem.
Local users who have been granted the privileges necessary to
mount a filesystem would be able to craft a filesystem with a
corrupted catalog name length, resulting in a system oops or
memory corruption.
CVE-2008-5029
Andrea Bittau reported a DoS issue in the unix socket subsystem
that allows a local user to cause memory corruption, resulting in
a kernel panic.
CVE-2008-5134
Johannes Berg reported a remote DoS issue in the libertas wireless
driver, which can be triggered by a specially crafted beacon/probe
response.
CVE-2008-5182
Al Viro reported race conditions in the inotify subsystem that may
allow local users to acquire elevated privileges.
CVE-2008-5300
Dann Frazier reported a DoS condition that allows local users to
cause the out of memory handler to kill off privileged processes
or trigger soft lockups due to a starvation issue in the unix
socket subsystem.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.7.
We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6.24 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 4.0 alias etch
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These changes will probably be included in the stable distribution on
its next update.
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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@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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