linux-2.6.24 - several vulnerabilities

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-2008-3528
  Eugene Teo reported a local DoS issue in the ext2 and ext3
  filesystems. Local users who have been granted the privileges
  necessary to mount a filesystem would be able to craft a corrupted
  filesystem that causes the kernel to output error messages in an
  infinite loop.
• CVE-2008-4554
  Milos Szeredi reported that the usage of splice() on files opened
  with O_APPEND allows users to write to the file at arbitrary
  offsets, enabling a bypass of possible assumed semantics of the
  O_APPEND flag.
• CVE-2008-4576
  Vlad Yasevich reported an issue in the SCTP subsystem that may
  allow remote users to cause a local DoS by triggering a kernel
  oops.
• CVE-2008-4618
  Wei Yongjun reported an issue in the SCTP subsystem that may allow
  remote users to cause a local DoS by triggering a kernel panic.
• CVE-2008-4933
  Eric Sesterhenn reported a local DoS issue in the hfsplus
  filesystem. Local users who have been granted the privileges
  necessary to mount a filesystem would be able to craft a corrupted
  filesystem that causes the kernel to overrun a buffer, resulting
  in a system oops or memory corruption.
• CVE-2008-4934
  Eric Sesterhenn reported a local DoS issue in the hfsplus
  filesystem. Local users who have been granted the privileges
  necessary to mount a filesystem would be able to craft a corrupted
  filesystem that results in a kernel oops due to an unchecked
  return value.
• CVE-2008-5025
  Eric Sesterhenn reported a local DoS issue in the hfs filesystem.
  Local users who have been granted the privileges necessary to
  mount a filesystem would be able to craft a filesystem with a
  corrupted catalog name length, resulting in a system oops or
  memory corruption.
• CVE-2008-5029
  Andrea Bittau reported a DoS issue in the unix socket subsystem
  that allows a local user to cause memory corruption, resulting in
  a kernel panic.
• CVE-2008-5134
  Johannes Berg reported a remote DoS issue in the libertas wireless
  driver, which can be triggered by a specially crafted beacon/probe
  response.
• CVE-2008-5182
  Al Viro reported race conditions in the inotify subsystem that may
  allow local users to acquire elevated privileges.
• CVE-2008-5300
  Dann Frazier reported a DoS condition that allows local users to
  cause the out of memory handler to kill off privileged processes
  or trigger soft lockups due to a starvation issue in the unix
  socket subsystem.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.7.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6.24 packages.