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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3070-1 (kfreebsd-9 - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the FreeBSD kernel that may lead to a denial of service or information disclosure. CVE-2014-3711 Denial of service through memory leak in sandboxed namei lookups. CVE-2014-3952 Kernel memory disclosure in sockbuf control messages. CVE-2014-3953 Kernel memory disclosure in SCTP. This update disables SCTP, since the userspace tools shipped in Wheezy didn't support SCTP anyway. CVE-2014-8476 Kernel stack disclosure in setlogin() and getlogin().
Affected Software
Affected Software
kfreebsd-9 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 9.0-10+deb70.8. We recommend that you upgrade your kfreebsd-9 packages.