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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1862-1 (linux-2.6)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to linux-2.6 announced via advisory DSA 1862-1.
Insight
Insight
A vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problem: CVE-2009-2692 Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes discovered an issue with how the sendpage function is initialized in the proto_ops structure. Local users can exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.26-17lenny2. For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem will be fixed in updates to linux-2.6 and linux-2.6.24. We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 and user-mode-linux
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201862-1