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Debian DSA-1428-2 : linux-2.6 - several vulnerabilities
high Nessus Plugin ID 29263
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.Description
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. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :This is an update to DSA 1428-1 which omitted a reference to CVE-2007-5904.
- CVE-2007-3104 Eric Sandeen provided a backport of Tejun Heo's fix for a local denial of service vulnerability in sysfs. Under memory pressure, a dentry structure maybe reclaimed resulting in a bad pointer dereference causing an oops during a readdir.
- CVE-2007-4997 Chris Evans discovered an issue with certain drivers that make use of the Linux kernel's ieee80211 layer. A remote user could generate a malicious 802.11 frame that could result in a denial of service (crash). The ipw2100 driver is known to be affected by this issue, while the ipw2200 is believed not to be.
- CVE-2007-5500 Scott James Remnant diagnosed a coding error in the implementation of ptrace which could be used by a local user to cause the kernel to enter an infinite loop.
- CVE-2007-5904 Przemyslaw Wegrzyn discovered an issue in the CIFS filesystem that could allow a malicious server to cause a denial of service (crash) by overflowing a buffer.
These problems have been fixed in the stable distribution in version 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5.
The following matrix lists additional packages that were rebuilt for compatibility with or to take advantage of this update :
Debian 4.0 (etch) fai-kernels 1.17+etch.13etch5 user-mode-linux 2.6.18-1um-2etch.13etch5
Solution
Upgrade the kernel package immediately and reboot the machine. If you have built a custom kernel from the kernel source package, you will need to rebuild to take advantage of these fixes.See Also
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3104
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4997
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5500
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 29263
File Name: debian_DSA-1428.nasl
Version: 1.19
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 12/11/2007
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:linux-2.6, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-3104, CVE-2007-4997, CVE-2007-5500, CVE-2007-5904