Debian Security Advisory

DLA-3446-1 linux-5.10 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
05 Jun 2023
Affected Packages:
linux-5.10
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 1035779.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2023-0386, CVE-2023-31436, CVE-2023-32233.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.

  • CVE-2023-0386

    It was discovered that under certain conditions the overlayfs filesystem implementation did not properly handle copy up operations. A local user permitted to mount overlay mounts in user namespaces can take advantage of this flaw for local privilege escalation.

  • CVE-2023-31436

    Gwangun Jung reported a a flaw causing heap out-of-bounds read/write errors in the traffic control subsystem for the Quick Fair Queueing scheduler (QFQ) which may result in information leak, denial of service or privilege escalation.

  • CVE-2023-32233

    Patryk Sondej and Piotr Krysiuk discovered a use-after-free flaw in the Netfilter nf_tables implementation when processing batch requests, which may result in local privilege escalation for a user with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability in any user or network namespace.

For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 5.10.179-1~deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-5.10 packages.

For the detailed security status of linux-5.10 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/linux-5.10

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS