[Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 1494-1] New linux-2.6 packages fix privilege escalation

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1494-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer February 11, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

security flaw

Linux kernel before 2.6.16.21 and 2.6.17, when running on PowerPC, does not perform certain required accessok checks, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory on 64-bit systems signal64.c and cause a denial of service crash and possibly read kernel memory on 32-bit systems...

DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1345

Squid 2.5.STABLE9 and earlier does not trigger a fatal error when it identifies missing or invalid ACLs in the httpaccess configuration, which could lead to less restrictive ACLs than intended by the administrator...