Bug#301372: kernel-source-2.6.8: [CAN-2005-0839] Insecure restriction of access to the N_MOUSE line disciple for TTYs

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Package: kernel-source-2.6.8
Version: 2.6.8-15
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Kernels before 2.6.11 do not properly restrict access to the N_MOUSE line
disciple for TTYs, which allows local users to inject mouse or keyboard
events into other's users sessions and possibly gain extended privileges.

A fix is referenced at
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0839 (I currently
don't have a mouse and typing Bitkeeper web URLs is too weird :-))

Cheers,
        Moritz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages kernel-source-2.6.8 depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.15-5     The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  bzip2                         1.0.2-5    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities