Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 922-1] linux security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or have other impacts. CVE-2016-2188 Ralf Spenneberg of OpenSource Security reported that the iowarrior device driver did not sufficiently validate USB descriptors. This allowed a physically present user with a specially designed USB device to cause a denial of service (crash). CVE-2016-9604 It was discovered that the keyring subsystem allowed a process to set a special internal keyring as its session keyring. The security impact in this version of the kernel is unknown. Description truncated. Please see the references for more information. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.88-1. This version also includes bug fixes from upstream version 3.2.88, and fixes some older security issues in the keyring, packet socket and cryptographic hash subsystems that do not have CVE IDs.

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For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.2.88-1. This version also includes bug fixes from upstream version 3.2.88, and fixes some older security issues in the keyring, packet socket and cryptographic hash subsystems that do not have CVE IDs. For Debian 8 'Jessie', most of these problems have been fixed in version 3.16.43-1 which will be part of the next point release. We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.