| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'fai-kernels, linux-2.6, user-mode-linux' package(s) announced via the DSA-1653-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
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.
Affected Software/OS:
'fai-kernels, linux-2.6, user-mode-linux' package(s) on Debian 4.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
7.2
CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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