• [SECURITY] [DSA-1996-1] New Linux 2.6.26 packages fix several vulnerabi

    From dann frazier@1:229/2 to All on Sat Feb 13 02:50:03 2010
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    Debian Security Advisory DSA-1996-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ dann frazier
    February 12, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : linux-2.6
    Vulnerability : privilege escalation/denial of service/sensitive memory leak Problem type : local/remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-3939 CVE-2009-4027 CVE-2009-4536 CVE-2009-4538
    CVE-2010-0003 CVE-2010-0007 CVE-2010-0291 CVE-2010-0298
    CVE-2010-0306 CVE-2010-0307 CVE-2010-0309 CVE-2010-0410
    CVE-2010-0415

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that
    may lead to a denial of service, sensitive memory leak or privilege
    escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
    identifies the following problems:

    CVE-2009-3939

    Joseph Malicki reported that the dbg_lvl sysfs attribute for the
    megaraid_sas device driver had world-writable permissions,
    permitting local users to modify logging settings.

    CVE-2009-4027

    Lennert Buytenhek reported a race in the mac80211 subsystem that
    may allow remote users to cause a denial of service (system crash)
    on a system connected to the same wireless network.

    CVE-2009-4536 & CVE-2009-4538

    Fabian Yamaguchi reported issues in the e1000 and e1000e drivers
    for Intel gigabit network adapters which allow remote users to
    bypass packet filters using specially crafted ethernet frames.

    CVE-2010-0003

    Andi Kleen reported a defect which allows local users to gain read
    access to memory reachable by the kernel when the
    print-fatal-signals option is enabled. This option is disabled by
    default.

    CVE-2010-0007

    Florian Westphal reported a lack of capability checking in the
    ebtables netfilter subsystem. If the ebtables module is loaded,
    local users can add and modify ebtables rules.

    CVE-2010-0291

    Al Viro reported several issues with the mmap/mremap system calls
    that allow local users to cause a denial of service (system panic)
    or obtain elevated privileges.

    CVE-2010-0298 & CVE-2010-0306

    Gleb Natapov discovered issues in the KVM subsystem where missing
    permission checks (CPL/IOPL) permit a user in a guest system to
    denial of service a guest (system crash) or gain escalated
    privileges with the guest.

    CVE-2010-0307

    Mathias Krause reported an issue with the load_elf_binary code on
    the amd64 flavor kernels that allows local users to cause a denial
    of service (system crash).

    CVE-2010-0309

    Marcelo Tosatti fixed an issue in the PIT emulation code in the
    KVM subsystem that allows privileged users in a guest domain to
    cause a denial of service (crash) of the host system.

    CVE-2010-0410

    Sebastian Krahmer discovered an issue in the netlink connector
    subsystem that permits local users to allocate large amounts of
    system memory resulting in a denial of service (out of memory).

    CVE-2010-0415

    Ramon de Carvalho Valle discovered an issue in the sys_move_pages
    interface, limited to amd64, ia64 and powerpc64 flavors in Debian.
    Local users can exploit this issue to cause a denial of service
    (system crash) or gain access to sensitive kernel memory.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.6.26-21lenny3.

    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.

    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+21lenny3

    Upgrade instructions
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    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 5.0 alias lenny
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    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_2.6.26-21lenny2.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 7743374 ab69790fa702dc6902a48328ed655e17
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26-21lenny1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5778 5a4c27a374c304a0f727a6bc8ca107f3
    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_2.6.26-21lenny1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 7739467 c8cd3620be097861ec74ba95738bf627
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26-21lenny2.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5778 71b62f2c2ce9bf12c5c8c7b1aead68a2
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26-21lenny3.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 7763646 65572787e140a954f0b5cbc00ce52038
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26-21lenny3.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5778 3de1d44da4b4d993a2662b458bac2141

    Architecture independent packages:


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