| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'kernel-source-2.6.8' package(s) announced via the DSA-1237 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2005-4093
Olof Johansson reported a local DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability on the PPC970 platform. Unprivileged users can hang the system by executing the attn instruction, which was not being disabled at boot.
CVE-2006-4538
Kirill Korotaev reported a local DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability on the ia64 and sparc architectures. A user could cause the system to crash by executing a malformed ELF binary due to insufficient verification of the memory layout.
CVE-2006-4997
ADLab Venustech Info Ltd reported a potential remote DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability in the IP over ATM subsystem. A remote system could cause the system to crash by sending specially crafted packets that would trigger an attempt to free an already-freed pointer resulting in a system crash.
CVE-2006-5174
Martin Schwidefsky reported a potential leak of sensitive information on s390 systems. The copy_from_user function did not clear the remaining bytes of the kernel buffer after receiving a fault on the userspace address, resulting in a leak of uninitialized kernel memory. A local user could exploit this by appending to a file from a bad address.
CVE-2006-5649
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto reported a potential remote DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability on powerpc systems. The alignment exception only checked the exception table for -EFAULT, not for other errors. This can be exploited by a local user to cause a system crash (panic).
CVE-2006-5871
Bill Allombert reported that various mount options are ignored by smbfs when UNIX extensions are enabled. This includes the uid, gid and mode options. Client systems would silently use the server-provided settings instead of honoring these options, changing the security model. This update includes a fix from Haroldo Gamal that forces the kernel to honor these mount options. Note that, since the current versions of smbmount always pass values for these options to the kernel, it is not currently possible to activate unix extensions by omitting mount options. However, this behavior is currently consistent with the current behavior of the next Debian release, 'etch'.
The following matrix explains which kernel version for which architecture fix the problems mentioned above:
Debian 3.1 (sarge)
Source 2.4.27-10sarge5
Alpha architecture 2.4.27-10sarge5
ARM architecture 2.4.27-2sarge5
Intel IA-32 architecture 2.4.27-10sarge5
Intel IA-64 architecture 2.4.27-10sarge5
Motorola 680x0 architecture 2.4.27-3sarge5
Big endian MIPS 2.4.27-10.sarge4.040815-2
Little endian MIPS 2.4.27-10.sarge4.040815-2
PowerPC architecture 2.4.27-10sarge5
IBM S/390 architecture 2.4.27-2sarge5
Sun Sparc architecture ... [Please see the references for more information on the vulnerabilities]
Affected Software/OS:
'kernel-source-2.6.8' package(s) on Debian 3.1.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
7.1
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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