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Medium DSA-922-1 27 CVEs

kernel-source-2.6.8 - several

Published Dec 14, 2005 · Updated Mar 9, 2026

Fixed packages 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian · 3.1 kernel-image-2.6.8-alpha 2.6.8-16sarge1
Debian · 3.1 kernel-image-2.6.8-amd64 2.6.8-16sarge1
Debian · 3.1 kernel-image-2.6.8-hppa 2.6.8-6sarge1
Debian · 3.1 kernel-image-2.6.8-i386 2.6.8-16sarge1
Debian · 3.1 kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 2.6.8-14sarge1
Debian · 3.1 kernel-image-2.6.8-m68k 2.6.8-4sarge1
Debian · 3.1 kernel-image-2.6.8-s390 2.6.8-5sarge1
Debian · 3.1 kernel-image-2.6.8-sparc 2.6.8-15sarge1
Debian · 3.1 kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8 2.6.8-12sarge1
Debian · 3.1 kernel-source-2.6.8 2.6.8-16sarge1

Vulnerabilities 27

  • Medium 4.7

    Race condition in Linux 2.6, when threads are sharing memory mapping via CLONE_VM (such as linuxthreads and vfork), mig…

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    Race condition in the sysfs_read_file and sysfs_write_file functions in Linux kernel before 2.6.10 allows local users t…

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    ptrace in Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 does not properly verify addresses on the amd64 platform, which allows local users to ca…

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    The xattr file system code, as backported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 on 64-bit systems, does not properly handle cer…

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    The mmap function in the Linux Kernel 2.6.10 can be used to create memory maps with a start address beyond the end addr…

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    Linux kernel 2.6 and 2.4 on the IA64 architecture allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via pt…

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    The ptrace call in the Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.10 for the AMD64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of s…

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    Buffer overflow in ptrace in the Linux Kernel for 64-bit architectures allows local users to write bytes into kernel me…

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    syscall in the Linux kernel 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.10 for the AMD64 platform, when running in 32-bit compatibility mode, allow…

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    traps.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.x and 2.4.x executes stack segment faults on an exception stack, which allows local use…

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    Array index overflow in the xfrm_sk_policy_insert function in xfrm_user.c in Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to cau…

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    inflate.c in the zlib routines in the Linux kernel before 2.6.12.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…

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    The huft_build function in inflate.c in the zlib routines in the Linux kernel before 2.6.12.5 returns the wrong value, …

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    vlan_dev.c in the VLAN code for Linux kernel 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel oops fr…

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    xattr.c in the ext2 and ext3 file system code for Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly compare the name_index fields when…

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    The ipt_recent kernel module (ipt_recent.c) in Linux kernel before 2.6.12, when running on 64-bit processors such as AM…

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    The mprotect code (mprotect.c) in Linux 2.6 on Itanium IA64 Montecito processors does not properly maintain cache coher…

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    fs/exec.c in Linux 2.6, when one thread is tracing another thread that shares the same memory map, might allow local us…

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    mm/ioremap.c in Linux 2.6 on 64-bit x86 systems allows local users to cause a denial of service or an information leak …

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    The HFS and HFS+ (hfsplus) modules in Linux 2.6 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (oops) by using hfsplus to…

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    Race condition in ebtables netfilter module (ebtables.c) in Linux 2.6, when running on an SMP system that is operating …

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    Exec in Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly clear posix-timers in multi-threaded environments, which results in a resour…

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    Linux kernel before 2.6.12 allows remote attackers to poison the bridge forwarding table using frames that have already…

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    The rose_rt_ioctl function in rose_route.c for Radionet Open Source Environment (ROSE) in Linux 2.6 kernels before 2.6.…

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    Race condition in ip_vs_conn_flush in Linux 2.6 before 2.6.13 and 2.4 before 2.4.32-pre2, when running on SMP systems, …

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    The NAT code (1) ip_nat_proto_tcp.c and (2) ip_nat_proto_udp.c in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.13 and 2.4 before 2.4.32-…

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    The sys_get_thread_area function in process.c in Linux 2.6 before 2.6.12.4 and 2.6.13 does not clear a data structure b…