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Secunia Advisory SA18056

Debian update for kernel-source-2.6.8
Secunia Advisory SA18056
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Release Date 2005-12-15
   
Popularity 10,638 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Unknown
Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-2302 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-0756 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-0757 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-1265 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-1761 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-1762 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-1763 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-1765 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-1767 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2456 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2458 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2459 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2548 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2801 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2872 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3105 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3106 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3107 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3108 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3109 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3110 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3271 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3272 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3273 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3274 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3275 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3276 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Debian has issued an update for kernel-source-2.6.8. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users with an unknown impact, to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive and to gain escalated privileges, or by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and potentially to cause a DoS.

For more information:
SA13654
SA15630
SA15416
SA15786
SA15812
SA16298
SA16355
SA12525
SA14295
SA14585
SA16494

Note: A resource leak in the handling of POSIX timers in the exec() function has also been fixed.


Solution
Apply updated packages.
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

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Subject: Debian update for kernel-source-2.6.8
 
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