Debian DSA-2389-1 : linux-2.6 - privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak

medium Nessus Plugin ID 57583

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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-2011-2183 Andrea Righi reported an issue in KSM, a memory-saving de-duplication feature. By exploiting a race with exiting tasks, local users can cause a kernel oops, resulting in a denial of service.

- CVE-2011-2213 Dan Rosenberg discovered an issue in the INET socket monitoring interface. Local users could cause a denial of service by injecting code and causing the kernel to execute an infinite loop.

- CVE-2011-2898 Eric Dumazet reported an information leak in the raw packet socket implementation.

- CVE-2011-3353 Han-Wen Nienhuys reported a local denial of service issue in the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) support in the Linux kernel. Local users could cause a buffer overflow, leading to a kernel oops and resulting in a denial of service.

- CVE-2011-4077 Carlos Maiolino reported an issue in the XFS filesystem.
A local user with the ability to mount a filesystem could corrupt memory resulting in a denial of service or possibly gain elevated privileges.

- CVE-2011-4110 David Howells reported an issue in the kernel's access key retention system which allow local users to cause a kernel oops leading to a denial of service.

- CVE-2011-4127 Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat reported an issue in the ioctl passthrough support for SCSI devices. Users with permission to access restricted portions of a device (e.g. a partition or a logical volume) can obtain access to the entire device by way of the SG_IO ioctl. This could be exploited by a local user or privileged VM guest to achieve a privilege escalation.

- CVE-2011-4611 Maynard Johnson reported an issue with the perf support on POWER7 systems that allows local users to cause a denial of service.

- CVE-2011-4622 Jan Kiszka reported an issue in the KVM PIT timer support. Local users with the permission to use KVM can cause a denial of service by starting a PIT timer without first setting up the irqchip.

- CVE-2011-4914 Ben Hutchings reported various bounds checking issues within the ROSE protocol support in the kernel. Remote users could possibly use this to gain access to sensitive memory or cause a denial of service.

Solution

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

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.32-39squeeze1. Updates for issues impacting the oldstable distribution (lenny) will be available soon.

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+39squeeze1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 57583

File Name: debian_DSA-2389.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/18/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/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: 1/15/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2183, CVE-2011-2213, CVE-2011-2898, CVE-2011-3353, CVE-2011-4077, CVE-2011-4110, CVE-2011-4127, CVE-2011-4611, CVE-2011-4622, CVE-2011-4914

BID: 46935, 48101, 48333, 48986, 49527, 50370, 50755, 51081, 51172, 51176

DSA: 2389

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