Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4843-1 linux -- security update

Date Reported:
01 Feb 2021
Affected Packages:
linux
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 970736, Bug 972345, Bug 977048, Bug 977615.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-27815, CVE-2020-27825, CVE-2020-27830, CVE-2020-28374, CVE-2020-29568, CVE-2020-29569, CVE-2020-29660, CVE-2020-29661, CVE-2020-36158, CVE-2021-3347, CVE-2021-20177.
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-2020-27815

    A flaw was reported in the JFS filesystem code allowing a local attacker with the ability to set extended attributes to cause a denial of service.

  • CVE-2020-27825

    Adam pi3 Zabrocki reported a use-after-free flaw in the ftrace ring buffer resizing logic due to a race condition, which could result in denial of service or information leak.

  • CVE-2020-27830

    Shisong Qin reported a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the Speakup screen reader core driver.

  • CVE-2020-28374

    David Disseldorp discovered that the LIO SCSI target implementation performed insufficient checking in certain XCOPY requests. An attacker with access to a LUN and knowledge of Unit Serial Number assignments can take advantage of this flaw to read and write to any LIO backstore, regardless of the SCSI transport settings.

  • CVE-2020-29568 (XSA-349)

    Michael Kurth and Pawel Wieczorkiewicz reported that frontends can trigger OOM in backends by updating a watched path.

  • CVE-2020-29569 (XSA-350)

    Olivier Benjamin and Pawel Wieczorkiewicz reported a use-after-free flaw which can be triggered by a block frontend in Linux blkback. A misbehaving guest can trigger a dom0 crash by continuously connecting / disconnecting a block frontend.

  • CVE-2020-29660

    Jann Horn reported a locking inconsistency issue in the tty subsystem which may allow a local attacker to mount a read-after-free attack against TIOCGSID.

  • CVE-2020-29661

    Jann Horn reported a locking issue in the tty subsystem which can result in a use-after-free. A local attacker can take advantage of this flaw for memory corruption or privilege escalation.

  • CVE-2020-36158

    A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the mwifiex WiFi driver which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code via a long SSID value.

  • CVE-2021-3347

    It was discovered that PI futexes have a kernel stack use-after-free during fault handling. An unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the kernel (resulting in denial of service) or for privilege escalation.

  • CVE-2021-20177

    A flaw was discovered in the Linux implementation of string matching within a packet. A privileged user (with root or CAP_NET_ADMIN) can take advantage of this flaw to cause a kernel panic when inserting iptables rules.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 4.19.171-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux packages.

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