| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'linux-2.6' package(s) announced via the DSA-1749-1 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-2009-0029
Christian Borntraeger discovered an issue effecting the alpha, mips, powerpc, s390 and sparc64 architectures that allows local users to cause a denial of service or potentially gain elevated privileges.
CVE-2009-0031
Vegard Nossum discovered a memory leak in the keyctl subsystem that allows local users to cause a denial of service by consuming all of kernel memory.
CVE-2009-0065
Wei Yongjun discovered a memory overflow in the SCTP implementation that can be triggered by remote users.
CVE-2009-0269
Duane Griffin provided a fix for an issue in the eCryptfs subsystem which allows local users to cause a denial of service (fault or memory corruption).
CVE-2009-0322
Pavel Roskin provided a fix for an issue in the dell_rbu driver that allows a local user to cause a denial of service (oops) by reading 0 bytes from a sysfs entry.
CVE-2009-0676
Clement LECIGNE discovered a bug in the sock_getsockopt function that may result in leaking sensitive kernel memory.
CVE-2009-0675
Roel Kluin discovered inverted logic in the skfddi driver that permits local, unprivileged users to reset the driver statistics.
CVE-2009-0745
Peter Kerwien discovered an issue in the ext4 filesystem that allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel oops) during a resize operation.
CVE-2009-0746
Sami Liedes reported an issue in the ext4 filesystem that allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel oops) when accessing a specially crafted corrupt filesystem.
CVE-2009-0747
David Maciejak reported an issue in the ext4 filesystem that allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel oops) when mounting a specially crafted corrupt filesystem.
CVE-2009-0748
David Maciejak reported an additional issue in the ext4 filesystem that allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel oops) when mounting a specially crafted corrupt filesystem.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems, where applicable, will be fixed in future updates to linux-2.6 and linux-2.6.24.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.26-13lenny2.
We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 packages.
Affected Software/OS:
'linux-2.6' package(s) on Debian 5.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
10.0
CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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