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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2992-1 (linux - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

9 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation: CVE-2014-3534 Martin Schwidefsky of IBM discovered that the ptrace subsystem does not properly sanitize the psw mask value. On s390 systems, an unprivileged local user could use this flaw to set address space control bits to kernel space combination and thus gain read/write access to kernel memory. CVE-2014-4667 Gopal Reddy Kodudula of Nokia Siemens Networks discovered that the sctp_association_free function does not properly manage a certain backlog value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (socket outage) via a crafted SCTP packet. CVE-2014-4943 Sasha Levin discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol (PPP) when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP). An unprivileged local user could use this flaw for privilege escalation.

Affected Software

Affected Software

linux on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.60-1+deb7u3. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.14.13-2. We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)