Debian has issued an update for linux-2.6. This fixes some weaknesses, security issues, and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose certain system information, bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS.

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1) An error within the Econet protocol implementation can be exploited to cause a crash by sending Acorn Universal Networking packets over UDP.

Solution
Install updated packages via the apt-get package manager.

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Nelson Elhage

Original Advisory
DSA-2153-1:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2011/msg00017.html

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