• [SECURITY] [DSA 2053-1] New Linux 2.6.26 packages fix several issues (1

    From dann frazier@1:229/2 to All on Tue May 25 09:00:07 2010
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    Debian Security Advisory DSA-2053-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ dann frazier
    May 25, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : linux-2.6
    Vulnerability : privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak Problem type : local
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-4537 CVE-2010-0727 CVE-2010-1083 CVE-2010-1084
    CVE-2010-1086 CVE-2010-1087 CVE-2010-1088 CVE-2010-1162
    CVE-2010-1173 CVE-2010-1187 CVE-2010-1437 CVE-2010-1446
    CVE-2010-1451
    Debian Bug(s) : 573071

    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-2009-4537

    Fabian Yamaguchi reported a missing check for Ethernet frames larger
    than the MTU in the r8169 driver. This may allow users on the local
    network to crash a system, resulting in a denial of service.

    CVE-2010-0727

    Sachin Prabhu reported an issue in the GFS2 filesystem. Local users
    can trigger a BUG() altering the permissions on a locked file,
    resulting in a denial of service.

    CVE-2010-1083

    Linus Torvalds reported an issue in the USB subsystem, which may allow
    local users to obtain portions of sensitive kernel memory.

    CVE-2010-1084

    Neil Brown reported an issue in the Bluetooth subsystem that may
    permit remote attackers to overwrite memory through the creation
    of large numbers of sockets, resulting in a denial of service.

    CVE-2010-1086

    Ang Way Chuang reported an issue in the DVB subsystem for Digital
    TV adapters. By creating a specially-encoded MPEG2-TS frame, a remote
    attacker could cause the receiver to enter an endless loop, resulting
    in a denial of service.

    CVE-2010-1087

    Trond Myklebust reported an issue in the NFS filesystem. A local
    user may cause an oops by sending a fatal signal during a file
    truncation operation, resulting in a denial of service.

    CVE-2010-1088

    Al Viro reported an issue where automount symlinks may not
    be followed when LOOKUP_FOLLOW is not set. This has an unknown
    security impact.

    CVE-2010-1162

    Catalin Marinas reported an issue in the tty subsystem that allows
    local attackers to cause a kernel memory leak, possibly resulting
    in a denial of service.

    CVE-2010-1173

    Chris Guo from Nokia China and Jukka Taimisto and Olli Jarva from
    Codenomicon Ltd reported an issue in the SCTP subsystem that allows
    a remote attacker to cause a denial of service using a malformed init
    package.

    CVE-2010-1187

    Neil Hormon reported an issue in the TIPC subsystem. Local users can
    cause a denial of service by way of a NULL pointer dereference by
    sending datagrams through AF_TIPC before entering network mode.

    CVE-2010-1437

    Toshiyuki Okajima reported a race condition in the keyring subsystem.
    Local users can cause memory corruption via keyctl commands that
    access a keyring in the process of being deleted, resulting in a
    denial of service.

    CVE-2010-1446

    Wufei reported an issue with kgdb on the PowerPC architecture,
    allowing local users to write to kernel memory. Note: this issue
    does not affect binary kernels provided by Debian. The fix is
    provided for the benefit of users who build their own kernels
    from Debian source.

    CVE-2010-1451

    Brad Spengler reported an issue on the SPARC architecture that allows
    local users to execute non-executable pages.

    This update also includes fixes a regression introduced by a previous
    update. See the referenced Debian bug page for details.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
    version 2.6.26-22lenny1.

    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:

    Debian 5.0 (lenny)
    user-mode-linux 2.6.26-1um-2+22lenny1

    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.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 61818969 85e039c2588d5bf3cb781d1c9218bbcb
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26-22lenny1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5778 713b8a3f2bc10816264a81c0a9eb7860
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.26-22lenny1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 7894925 86ecf2ca8808aea84b0af06317616a6c

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-support-2.6.26-2_2.6.26-22lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 126228 be9c5c392a1ab0cf0a297063abf983f6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-manual-2.6.26_2.6.26-22lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1764832 b0d63ac0b12a0679867b8b53bf4c3a54
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-patch-debian-2.6.26_2.6.26-22lenny1_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2871892 c5c0e0d8ea193812566f9481e6ca8440

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