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Secunia Advisory SA19374

Debian update for kernel-source-2.6.8
Secunia Advisory SA19374
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Release Date 2006-03-24
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Operating System
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2004-1017 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-0124 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-0449 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-2457 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-2490 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-2555 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-2709 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-2800 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-2973 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3044 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3053 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3055 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3180 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3181 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3257 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3356 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3358 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3783 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3784 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3806 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3847 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3848 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3857 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-3858 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-4605 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2005-4618 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-0095 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-0096 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-0482 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2006-1066 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

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

For more information:
SA14295
SA16355
SA16747
SA16494
SA17504
SA16494
SA17261
SA16897
SA16969
SA17114
SA17226
SA18487
SA18216
SA17761
SA17786
SA17384
SA18216
SA19330

NOTE: An error in "wan/sdla.c", which allows the root user to perform SDLA firmware upgrades without requiring the "CAP_SYS_RAWIO" privilege, has also been reported.


Solution
Apply updated packages.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1017

Other references
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

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Subject: Debian update for kernel-source-2.6.8
 
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