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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71492
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2508-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'kfreebsd-8' package(s) announced via the DSA-2508-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'kfreebsd-8' package(s) announced via the DSA-2508-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Rafal Wojtczuk from Bromium discovered that FreeBSD wasn't handling correctly uncanonical return addresses on Intel amd64 CPUs, allowing privilege escalation to kernel for local users.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 8.1+dfsg-8+squeeze3.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 8.3-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 8.3-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your kfreebsd-8 packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'kfreebsd-8' package(s) on Debian 6.

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-0217
Cert/CC Advisory: TA12-164A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#649219
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/649219
Debian Security Information: DSA-2501 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2501
Debian Security Information: DSA-2508 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2508
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28718/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46508/
FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-12:04
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret.asc
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201309-24.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:150
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-announce/2012-06/msg00001.html
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-06/msg01072.html
Microsoft Security Bulletin: MS12-042
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-042
NETBSD Security Advisory: NetBSD-SA2012-003
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2012-003.txt.asc
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15596
http://secunia.com/advisories/55082
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG

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