Summary
The remote host is missing an update to alsa-driver announced via advisory DSA 1505-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201505-1
Insight
Takashi Iwai supplied a fix for a memory leak in the snd_page_alloc module.
Local users could exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information from the kernel (CVE-2007-4571).
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.13-5etch1. This issue was already fixed for the version of ALSA provided by linux-2.6 in DSA 1479.
For the oldstable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.8-7sarge1. The prebuilt modules provided by alsa-modules-i386 have been rebuilt to take advantage of this update, and are available in version 1.0.8+2sarge2.
For the unstable distributions (sid), this problem was fixed in version 1.0.15-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your alsa-driver and alsa-modules-i386
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-4571 -
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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