Debian DSA-2443-1 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service

high Nessus Plugin ID 58486

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2009-4307 Nageswara R Sastry reported an issue in the ext4 filesystem. Local users with the privileges to mount a filesystem can cause a denial of service (BUG) by providing a s_log_groups_per_flex value greater than 31.

- CVE-2011-1833 Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall and Dan Rosenberg discovered an information leak in the eCryptfs filesystem. Local users were able to mount arbitrary directories.

- CVE-2011-4347 Sasha Levin reported an issue in the device assignment functionality in KVM. Local users with permission to access /dev/kvm could assign unused pci devices to a guest and cause a denial of service (crash).

- CVE-2012-0045 Stephan Barwolf reported an issue in KVM. Local users in a 32-bit guest running on a 64-bit system can crash the guest with a syscall instruction.

- CVE-2012-1090 CAI Qian reported an issue in the CIFS filesystem. A reference count leak can occur during the lookup of special files, resulting in a denial of service (oops) on umount.

- CVE-2012-1097 H. Peter Anvin reported an issue in the regset infrastructure. Local users can cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by triggering the write methods of readonly regsets.

Solution

Upgrade the linux-2.6 and user-mode-linux packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.32-41squeeze2.

The following matrix lists additional source packages that were rebuilt for compatibility with or to take advantage of this update :

Debian 6.0 (squeeze) user-mode-linux 2.6.32-1um-4+41squeeze2 Thanks to Micah Anderson for proof reading this text.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58486

File Name: debian_DSA-2443.nasl

Version: 1.26

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/27/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:linux-2.6, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-4307, CVE-2011-1833, CVE-2011-4347, CVE-2012-0045, CVE-2012-1090, CVE-2012-1097

BID: 49108, 50811, 51389, 52197, 52274

CWE: 189

DSA: 2443

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