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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1653-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabi

    From dann frazier@1:229/2 to All on Mon Oct 13 22:40:15 2008
    From: [email protected]

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    Debian Security Advisory DSA-1653-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ dann frazier
    Oct 13, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : linux-2.6
    Vulnerability : denial of service/privilege escalation
    Problem type : local/remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-6716 CVE-2008-1514 CVE-2008-3276 CVE-2008-3525
    CVE-2008-3833 CVE-2008-4210 CVE-2008-4302

    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-2007-6716

    Joe Jin reported a local denial of service vulnerability that
    allows system users to trigger an oops due to an improperly
    initialized data structure.

    CVE-2008-1514

    Jan Kratochvil reported a local denial of service vulnerability in
    the ptrace interface for the s390 architecture. Local users can
    trigger an invalid pointer dereference, leading to a system panic.

    CVE-2008-3276

    Eugene Teo reported an integer overflow in the DCCP subsystem that
    may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service in the
    form of a kernel panic.

    CVE-2008-3525

    Eugene Teo reported a lack of capability checks in the kernel
    driver for Granch SBNI12 leased line adapters (sbni), allowing
    local users to perform privileged operations.

    CVE-2008-3833

    The S_ISUID/S_ISGID bits were not being cleared during an inode
    splice, which, under certain conditions, can be exploited by local
    users to obtain the privileges of a group for which they are not a
    member. Mark Fasheh reported this issue.

    CVE-2008-4210

    David Watson reported an issue in the open()/creat() system calls
    which, under certain conditions, can be exploited by local users
    to obtain the privileges of a group for which they are not a
    member.

    CVE-2008-4302

    A coding error in the splice subsystem allows local users to
    attempt to unlock a page structure that has not been locked,
    resulting in a system crash.

    For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch3.

    We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6, fai-kernels, and
    user-mode-linux 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

    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.22etch3
    user-mode-linux 2.6.18-1um-2etch.22etch3

    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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    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fai-kernels/fai-kernels_1.17+etch.22etch3.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 740 493907f0ec1dd35b585f1d719b47c7a2
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch3.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5672 fa1b554733916f434e7c5d2cbb14ef39
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/user-mode-linux/user-mode-linux_2.6.18-1um.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 14435 4d10c30313e11a24621f7218c31f3582
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.18.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 52225460 6a1ab0948d6b5b453ea0fce0fcc29060
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/user-mode-linux/user-mode-linux_2.6.18-1um-2etch.22etch3.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 18523 59f086bfef3cfc72e88f551f4af9be4e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch3.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5437298 bfacdfd59de2d0b136e7eb0581c16419
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/user-mode-linux/user-mode-linux_2.6.18-1um-2etch.22etch3.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 892 d977e436c0c36127480632bf12ddb409
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fai-kernels/fai-kernels_1.17+etch.22etch3.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 56943 707244b97c9b0d88024b496383bb0506

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-manual-2.6.18_2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1107604 57829032ad200ca9074d0e4f577ea3eb
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-doc-2.6.18_2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3752990 125913abc11ee4691c2e9c2ca85828e4
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-patch-debian-2.6.18_2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1644366 d520dd61b1d2bb622b96a44dac7f9c95
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-source-2.6.18_2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 42131294 87ce8671d2c807ade72b46e7f6dc0865
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-support-2.6.18-6_2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3754174 0a103fd55592f07a55e679ae96f1948b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-tree-2.6.18_2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 56140 732c3c59bc25b82815cecd51a320ff27

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-headers-2.6.18-6-vserver_2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3054276 d826087276a424fbb1ad81c802387974
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.18-6-alpha-smp_2.6.18.dfsg.1-22etch3_alpha.deb

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