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Debian 4.0 DSA-1286-1 Critical: Local And Remote Kernel Threats

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1286-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Dann Frazier May 2nd, 2007 http:
Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code

Summary


Daniel Roethlisberger discovered two buffer overflows in the cm4040
driver for the Omnikey CardMan 4040 device. A local user or malicious
device could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in kernel space.

CVE-2007-0958

Santosh Eraniose reported a vulnerability that allows local users to read
otherwise unreadable files by triggering a core dump while using PT_INTERP.
This is related to CVE-2004-1073.

CVE-2007-1357

Jean Delvare reported a vulnerability in the appletalk subsystem.
Systems with the appletalk module loaded can be triggered to crash
by other systems on the local network via a malformed frame.

CVE-2007-1592

Masayuki Nakagawa discovered that flow labels were inadvertently
being shared between listening sockets and child sockets. This defect
can be exploited by local users to cause a DoS (Oops).

This problem has been fixed in the stable distribution in version
2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1.

The following matrix lists additi...

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