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Red Hat update for kernel
Secunia Advisory: SA33280
Release Date: 2009-01-05
Popularity: 1,792 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium

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Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some vulnerabilities and security issues, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS.

For more information:
SA21999
SA23436
SA25895
SA26244
SA26322
SA27842
SA27908
SA30241
SA31366

Change Page:
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