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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1845-1] New Linux 2.6.26 packages fix several vulnerabi

    From dann frazier@1:229/2 to All on Wed Jul 29 07:20:11 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    Debian Security Advisory DSA-1845-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ dann frazier
    Jun 28, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : linux-2.6
    Vulnerability : denial of service, privilege escalation
    Problem type : local
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-1895 CVE-2009-2287 CVE-2009-2406 CVE-2009-2407

    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-2009-1895

    Julien Tinnes and Tavis Ormandy reported an issue in the Linux
    personality code. Local users can take advantage of a setuid
    binary that can either be made to dereference a NULL pointer or
    drop privileges and return control to the user. This allows a
    user to bypass mmap_min_addr restrictions which can be exploited
    to execute arbitrary code.

    CVE-2009-2287

    Matt T. Yourst discovered an issue in the kvm subsystem. Local
    users with permission to manipulate /dev/kvm can cause a denial
    of service (hang) by providing an invalid cr3 value to the
    KVM_SET_SREGS call.

    CVE-2009-2406
    CVE-2009-2407

    Ramon de Carvalho Valle discovered two issues with the eCryptfs
    layered filesystem using the fsfuzzer utility. A local user with
    permissions to perform an eCryptfs mount may modify the contents
    of a eCryptfs file, overflowing the stack and potentially gaining
    elevated privileges.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
    version 2.6.26-17lenny1.

    For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems, where
    applicable, will be fixed in updates to linux-2.6 and linux-2.6.24.

    We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 and 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.

    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 compatibility with or to take advantage of this update:

    Debian 5.0 (lenny)
    user-mode-linux 2.6.26-1um-2+17lenny1

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.

    Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

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

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26-17lenny1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 7379386 e39e1610a5bf0ecf7213c7d0cdf2d2b8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 61818969 85e039c2588d5bf3cb781d1c9218bbcb
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26-17lenny1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5777 af1732ba4824c10f33f9f9d47646b71e

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-manual-2.6.26_2.6.26-17lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1796746 513b2bc4b33984b4b8aee8fe5eba0eb6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-support-2.6.26-2_2.6.26-17lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 121474 6a5b4b1258d5413a289c622f53618048
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-source-2.6.26_2.6.26-17lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 49364258 a711fe6f43baac15f31ec8410cca0208
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-patch-debian-2.6.26_2.6.26-17lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2306752 c927a4be24692ff4ba314437ad3cb858
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-doc-2.6.26_2.6.26-17lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4846320 eed4194a6f0c2622b89d0f4f22bce41f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-tree-2.6.26_2.6.26-17lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 105386 b363ddaddee39208f28189904b441135

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.26-2-alpha-generic_2.6.26-17lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 28339784 20ad51628add3cb2c07fb8998e311ceb
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-alpha-smp_2.6.26-17lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 365102 8da1c0d879b2bc4262782c80daf4748e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.26-2-alpha-smp_2.6.26-17lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 29031684 906c285dc4d53632bf4a5e66259183b0
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-all_2.6.26-17lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 104956 840b14d789cc4ba914f967e7c9570951
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-alpha-legacy_2.6.26-17lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 362972 f950f072ef0f7fc0e756c9c29a9108ad
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.26-2-alpha-legacy_2.6.26-17lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 28317390 1cb8ed6ae8dcbac77691399363ba94e6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-headers-2.6.26-2-common_2.6.26-17lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3541642 602567f93cdd4ddebc261d819b26aab7

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