Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been idenitified in Debian, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by errors in Xfs. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3337

Affected Products

Debian GNU/Linux sarge
Debian GNU/Linux etch
Debian GNU/Linux sid

Solution

Debian GNU/Linux sarge - Upgrade to xfree86 version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge5
Debian GNU/Linux etch - Upgrade to xfs version 1.0.1-7
Debian GNU/Linux sid - Upgrade to xfs version 1.0.5-1

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3461
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2007/msg00158.html

ChangeLog

2007-10-11 : Initial release

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