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
File Name: debian_DSA-2443.nasl
Agent: unix
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
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 Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2012