Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2310-1 linux-2.6 -- privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak
- Date Reported:
- 22 Sep 2011
- Affected Packages:
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 633738.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-4067, CVE-2011-0712, CVE-2011-1020, CVE-2011-2209, CVE-2011-2211, CVE-2011-2213, CVE-2011-2484, CVE-2011-2491, CVE-2011-2492, CVE-2011-2495, CVE-2011-2496, CVE-2011-2497, CVE-2011-2525, CVE-2011-2928, CVE-2011-3188, CVE-2011-3191.
- More information:
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
Rafael Dominguez Vega of MWR InfoSecurity reported an issue in the auerswald module, a driver for Auerswald PBX/System Telephone USB devices. Attackers with physical access to a system's USB ports could obtain elevated privileges using a specially crafted USB device.
Rafael Dominguez Vega of MWR InfoSecurity reported an issue in the caiaq module, a USB driver for Native Instruments USB audio devices. Attackers with physical access to a system's USB ports could obtain elevated privileges using a specially crafted USB device.
Kees Cook discovered an issue in the /proc filesystem that allows local users to gain access to sensitive process information after execution of a setuid binary.
Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the osf_sysinfo() system call on the alpha architecture. Local users could obtain access to sensitive kernel memory.
Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the osf_wait4() system call on the alpha architecture permitting local users to gain elevated privileges.
Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the INET socket monitoring interface. Local users could cause a denial of service by injecting code and causing the kernel to execute an infinite loop.
Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that the number of exit handlers that a process can register is not capped, resulting in local denial of service through resource exhaustion (CPU time and memory).
Vasily Averin discovered an issue with the NFS locking implementation. A malicious NFS server can cause a client to hang indefinitely in an unlock call.
Marek Kroemeke and Filip Palian discovered that uninitialized struct elements in the Bluetooth subsystem could lead to a leak of sensitive kernel memory through leaked stack memory.
Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall discovered that the io file of a process' proc directory was world-readable, resulting in local information disclosure of information such as password lengths.
Robert Swiecki discovered that mremap() could be abused for local denial of service by triggering a BUG_ON assert.
Dan Rosenberg discovered an integer underflow in the Bluetooth subsystem, which could lead to denial of service or privilege escalation.
Ben Pfaff reported an issue in the network scheduling code. A local user could cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by sending a specially crafted netlink message.
Timo Warns discovered that insufficient validation of Be filesystem images could lead to local denial of service if a malformed filesystem image is mounted.
Dan Kaminsky reported a weakness of the sequence number generation in the TCP protocol implementation. This can be used by remote attackers to inject packets into an active session.
Darren Lavender reported an issue in the Common Internet File System (CIFS). A malicious file server could cause memory corruption leading to a denial of service.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.26-26lenny4. Updates for arm and alpha are not yet available, but will be released as soon as possible. Updates for the hppa and ia64 architectures will be included in the upcoming 5.0.9 point release.
The following matrix lists additional source packages that were rebuilt for compatibility with or to take advantage of this update:
Debian 5.0 (lenny) user-mode-linux 2.6.26-1um-2+26lenny4
We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 and user-mode-linux packages. These updates will not become active until after your system is rebooted.
Note: Debian carefully tracks all known security issues across every linux kernel package in all releases under active security support. However, given the high frequency at which low-severity security issues are discovered in the kernel and the resource requirements of doing an update, updates for lower priority issues will normally not be released for all kernels at the same time. Rather, they will be released in a staggered or "leap-frog" fashion.