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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1592-2 (linux-2.6)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to linux-2.6 announced via advisory DSA 1592-2.

Insight

Insight

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-1673 Wei Wang from McAfee reported a potential heap overflow in the ASN.1 decode code that is used by the SNMP NAT and CIFS subsystem. Exploitation of this issue may lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue is not believed to be exploitable with the pre-built kernel images provided by Debian, but it might be an issue for custom images built from the Debian-provided source package. CVE-2008-2358 Brandon Edwards of McAfee Avert labs discovered an issue in the DCCP subsystem. Due to missing feature length checks it is possible to cause an overflow they may result in remote arbitrary code execution. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch6. This updated advisory adds the linux-2.6 build for mipsel which was not yet available at the time of DSA-1592-1. We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6, fai-kernels, and

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201592-2

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)