[kernel-sec-discuss] r2654 - dsa-texts

Micah Anderson micah at alioth.debian.org
Mon Mar 26 15:40:04 UTC 2012


Author: micah
Date: 2012-03-26 15:40:03 +0000 (Mon, 26 Mar 2012)
New Revision: 2654

Modified:
   dsa-texts/2.6.32-41squeeze2
Log:
remove CVE-2011-4127 from header, reformat paragraphs

Modified: dsa-texts/2.6.32-41squeeze2
===================================================================
--- dsa-texts/2.6.32-41squeeze2	2012-03-26 04:05:05 UTC (rev 2653)
+++ dsa-texts/2.6.32-41squeeze2	2012-03-26 15:40:03 UTC (rev 2654)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 Vulnerability  : privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak
 Problem type   : local/remote
 Debian-specific: no
-CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2009-4307 CVE-2011-1833 CVE-2011-4127 CVE-2011-4347
+CVE Id(s)      : CVE-2009-4307 CVE-2011-1833 CVE-2011-4347
                  CVE-2012-0045 CVE-2012-1090 CVE-2012-1097
 
 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead
@@ -29,27 +29,26 @@
 
 CVE-2011-4347
 
-    Sasha Levin reported an issue in the device assignment functionality
-    in KVM. Local users with permission to access /dev/kvm could assign
-    unused pci devices to a guest and cause a denial of service (crash).
+    Sasha Levin reported an issue in the device assignment functionality in
+    KVM. Local users with permission to access /dev/kvm could assign unused pci
+    devices to a guest and cause a denial of service (crash).
 
 CVE-2012-0045
 
-    Stephan Barwolf reported an issue in KVM. Local users in a 32-bit
-    guest running on a 64-bit system can crash the guest with a syscall
-    instruction.
+    Stephan Barwolf reported an issue in KVM. Local users in a 32-bit guest
+    running on a 64-bit system can crash the guest with a syscall instruction.
 
 CVE-2012-1090
 
-    CAI Qian reported an issue in the CIFS filesystem. A reference count
-    leak can occur during the lookup of special files, resulting in a
-    denial of service (oops) on umount.
+    CAI Qian reported an issue in the CIFS filesystem. A reference count leak
+    can occur during the lookup of special files, resulting in a denial of
+    service (oops) on umount.
 
 CVE-2012-1097
 
-    H. Peter Anvin reported an issue in the regset infrastructure. Local
-    users can cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by
-    triggering the write methods of readonly regsets.
+    H. Peter Anvin reported an issue in the regset infrastructure. Local users
+    can cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by triggering the
+    write methods of readonly regsets.
 
 For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version
 2.6.32-41squeeze2.




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