PackageĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā : linux-2.6
VersionĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā : 2.6.32-48squeeze18
CVE IDĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā : CVE-2015-7550 CVE-2015-8543 CVE-2015-8575
Debian BugĀ Ā Ā Ā Ā : #808293
This update fixes the CVEs described below.
CVE-2015-7550
Dmitry Vyukov discovered a race condition in the keyring subsystem
Ā Ā Ā Ā that allows a local user to cause a denial of service (crash).
CVE-2015-8543
It was discovered that a local user permitted to create raw sockets
Ā Ā Ā Ā could cause a denial-of-service by specifying an invalid protocol
Ā Ā Ā Ā number for the socket. The attacker must have the CAP_NET_RAW
Ā Ā Ā Ā capability.
CVE-2015-8575
David Miller discovered a flaw in the Bluetooth SCO sockets
Ā Ā Ā Ā implementation that leads to an information leak to local users.
In addition, this update fixes a regression in the previous update:
#808293
A regression in the UDP implementation prevented freeradius and
Ā Ā Ā Ā some other applications from receiving data.
For the oldoldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been
fixed in version 2.6.32-48squeeze18.
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been
fixed in version 3.2.73-2+deb7u2.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 or earlier.
ā
Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of Linux kernel and LTS teams
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