===================================================================== CERT-Renater Note d'Information No. 2006/VULN263 _____________________________________________________________________ DATE : 22/05/2006 HARDWARE PLATFORM(S) : / OPERATING SYSTEM(S) : Systems running kernel-patch-vserver. ====================================================================== - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1060-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff May 19th, 2006 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : kernel-patch-vserver Vulnerability : programming error Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-2110 Jan Rekorajski discovered that the kernel patch for virtual private servers does not limit context capabilities to the root user within the virtual server, which might lead to privilege escalation for some virtual server specific operations. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain kernel-patch-vserver packages. For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.5.6. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2:2.0.1-4. We recommend that you upgrade your kernel-patch-vserver package and rebuild your kernel immediately. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-vserver/kernel-patch-vserver_1.9.5.6.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 635 512748c6aad20c132cbdf85c5e4fd72a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-vserver/kernel-patch-vserver_1.9.5.6.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 945398 671ed0151cf315be316024c8a946afe9 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kernel-patch-vserver/kernel-patch-vserver_1.9.5.6_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 431900 02b2d5ba6d4144b8f45056d30100db30 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ ====================================================================== ========================================================= Les serveurs de référence du CERT-Renater http://www.urec.fr/securite http://www.cru.fr/securite http://www.renater.fr ========================================================= + CERT-RENATER | tel : 01-53-94-20-44 + + 151 bd de l'Hopital | fax : 01-53-94-20-41 + + 75013 Paris | email: certsvp@renater.fr + =========================================================