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Nathan McFeters is a Senior Security Advisor for Ernst & Young's Advanced

Security Center in Chicago. The views and opinions expressed in this article are

his own and do not represent the views and opinions of Ernst & Young Advanced

Security Center or Ernst & Young, LLP. Nathan has performed web application,

deep source code, Internet, Intranet, wireless, dial-up, and social engineering

engagements for numerous clients in the Fortune 500 during his career at Ernst &

Young and has spoken at a number of prestigious conferences, including Black

Hat, DEFCON, ToorCon, and Hack in the Box. He can be found at his Pwn* blog and

XS-Sniper, a blog with Billy Rios. See his full profile and disclosure of his

industry affiliations.
Some of these look to be pretty serious bugs. The two newest do not have

security focus entries yet, but as far as I’m aware there currently exists no

public exploit code for this, which is a good thing. It’s also important to

note, but this should be obvious, this doesn’t just affect Debian, it’s simply

that the advisory came from Debian’s folks today… so make sure you’re fixing

your system up, whatever *Nix flavor you like.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version

2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch3.

The unstable (sid) and testing distributions will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6, fai-kernels, and user-mode-linux

packages.
Alexander Viro discovered a race condition in the directory notification

subsystem that allows local users to cause a Denial of Service (oops) and

possibly result in an escalation of privileges.
David Peer discovered that users could escape administrator imposed cpu time

limitations (RLIMIT_CPU) by setting a limit of 0.

CVE-2008-1375
CVE-2008-0007

Nick Piggin of SuSE discovered a number of issues in subsystems which register

a fault handler for memory mapped areas. This issue can be exploited by local

users to achieve a Denial of Service (DoS) and possibly execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2008-1294
CVE-2007-6694

Cyrill Gorcunov reported a NULL pointer dereference in code specific to the

CHRP PowerPC platforms. Local users could exploit this issue to achieve a Denial

of Service (DoS).
Dann Frazier of Debian posted to Full Disclosure today about four

vulnerabilities that allow local (this means you can’t do it over the Internet,

unless you’ve already compromised a user account in some way remotely, the same

applied to the Windows flaw that I spoke of, but there were questions around

what exactly local meant, it does not mean you have to sit at the box

physically) attacks against the kernel that result in arbitrary code execution

or Denial of Service conditions. The contents of his email are posted below:
Not to defend Microsoft, as kernel exploits that provide privileged access are

terrible flaws, but we had an interesting discussion in the talkbacks where

several people acted as if Microsoft was the only place that could’ve made such

mistakes. Well, the proof is in the pudding that this is a common flaw across

operating systems that is difficult to catch due to the complexities of kernel

code.

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