Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3696-1 linux -- security update

Date Reported:
19 Oct 2016
Affected Packages:
linux
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 831014.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8956, CVE-2016-5195, CVE-2016-7042, CVE-2016-7425.
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-2015-8956

    It was discovered that missing input sanitising in RFCOMM Bluetooth socket handling may result in denial of service or information leak.

  • CVE-2016-5195

    It was discovered that a race condition in the memory management code can be used for local privilege escalation.

  • CVE-2016-7042

    Ondrej Kozina discovered that incorrect buffer allocation in the proc_keys_show() function may result in local denial of service.

  • CVE-2016-7425

    Marco Grassi discovered a buffer overflow in the arcmsr SCSI driver which may result in local denial of service, or potentially, arbitrary code execution.

Additionally this update fixes a regression introduced in DSA-3616-1 causing iptables performance issues (cf. Debian Bug #831014).

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 3.16.36-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.