Debian Security Advisory DSA 2264-1 (linux-2.6)

The remote host is missing an update to linux-2.6 announced via advisory DSA 2264-1.

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: CVE-2010-2524 David Howells reported an issue in the Common Internet File System (CIFS). Local users could cause arbitrary CIFS shares to be mounted by introducing malicious redirects. CVE-2010-3875 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered an issue in the Linux implementation of the Amateur Radio AX.25 Level 2 protocol. Local users may obtain access to sensitive kernel memory. CVE-2010-4075 Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the tty layer that may allow local users to obtain access to sensitive kernel memory. CVE-2010-4655 Kees Cook discovered several issues in the ethtool interface which may allow local users with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to obtain access to sensitive kernel memory. Description truncated. Please see the referenced advisory for more information. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.26-26lenny3. Updates for arm and hppa are not yet available, but will be released as soon as possible. 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+26lenny3

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6 and user-mode-linux packages.