Package: linux-patch-grsecurity2
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for linux-patch-grsecurity2.


CVE-2008-1940[0]:
| The RBAC functionality in grsecurity before 2.1.11-2.6.24.5 and
| 2.1.11-2.4.36.2 does not enforce user_transition_deny and
| user_transition_allow rules for the (1) sys_setfsuid and (2)
| sys_setfsgid calls, which allows local users to bypass restrictions
| for those calls.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1940
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-1940

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