DSA-2110-1 linux-2.6 -- privilege escalation/denial of service/information leakID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:600163 | Date: (C)2011-01-28 (M)2024-01-02 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
CVE-2010-2492 Andre Osterhues reported an issue in the eCryptfs subsystem. A buffer overflow condition may allow local users to cause a denial of service or gain elevated privileges. CVE-2010-2954 Tavis Ormandy reported an issue in the irda subsystem which may allow local users to cause a denial of service via a NULL pointer dereference. CVE-2010-3078 Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the XFS file system that allows local users to read potentially sensitive kernel memory. CVE-2010-3080 Tavis Ormandy reported an issue in the ALSA sequencer OSS emulation layer. Local users with sufficient privileges to open /dev/sequencer can cause a denial of service via a NULL pointer dereference. CVE-2010-3081 Ben Hawkes discovered an issue in the 32-bit compatibility code for 64-bit systems. Local users can gain elevated privileges due to insufficient checks in compat_alloc_user_space allocations. For the stable distribution , this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.26-25lenny1. We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 and user-mode-linux packages. The following matrix lists additional source packages that were rebuilt for compatibility with or to take advantage of this update: Debian 5.0 user-mode-linux 2.6.26-1um-2+25lenny1