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kernel: privilege escalation

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2011-1017
Created:May 6, 2011 Updated:August 12, 2011
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Timo Warns discovered that the LDM disk partition handling code did not correctly handle certain values. By inserting a specially crafted disk device, a local attacker could exploit this to gain root privileges.

Alerts:
Oracle ELSA-2011-2037 enterprise kernel 2011-12-15
SUSE SUSE-SU-2011:1058-1 kernel 2011-09-21
Ubuntu USN-1212-1 linux-ti-omap4 2011-09-21
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:040 kernel 2011-09-20
Ubuntu USN-1202-1 linux-ti-omap4 2011-09-13
SUSE SUSE-SU-2011:0899-1 kernel 2011-08-12
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:034 kernel 2011-08-12
Ubuntu USN-1187-1 kernel 2011-08-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0861-1 kernel 2011-08-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0860-1 kernel 2011-08-02
SUSE SUSE-SU-2011:0832-1 kernel 2011-07-25
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:031 kernel 2011-07-25
Ubuntu USN-1168-1 linux 2011-07-15
Ubuntu USN-1167-1 linux 2011-07-13
Ubuntu USN-1161-1 linux-ec2 2011-07-13
Ubuntu USN-1159-1 linux-mvl-dove 2011-07-13
Ubuntu USN-1162-1 linux-mvl-dove 2011-06-29
Ubuntu USN-1164-1 linux-fsl-imx51 2011-07-06
SUSE SUSE-SU-2011:0737-1 kernel 2011-07-05
SUSE SUSE-SU-2011:0711-1 kernel 2011-06-29
Ubuntu USN-1160-1 kernel 2011-06-28
Debian DSA-2264-1 linux-2.6 2011-06-18
Ubuntu USN-1146-1 kernel 2011-06-09
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:026 kernel 2011-05-20
Ubuntu USN-1111-1 linux-source-2.6.15 2011-05-05

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kernel: privilege escalation

Posted May 13, 2011 2:39 UTC (Fri) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955) [Link]

The original fix for this is incomplete:

http://linux.kernel.org/pipermail/stable-review/2011-May/...


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