SUSE update for kernel
Secunia Advisory: SA21498
Release Date: 2006-08-14
Popularity: 5,959 views

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

OS:SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0744
CVE-2006-1528
CVE-2006-1857
CVE-2006-1858
CVE-2006-2444
CVE-2006-2448
CVE-2006-2451
CVE-2006-2934
CVE-2006-2935
CVE-2006-3085
CVE-2006-3626


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

For more information:
SA17384
SA20185
SA20225
SA20703
SA20917
SA20953
SA21041

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

SUSE SLES 9 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/sea...a09c4d297070acc234594c664ed2e674.html

SUSE SLES 9 for IBM zSeries 64bit
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/sea...97ee46bb758608c23a7a8f3794e95f5b.html

SUSE SLES 9 for IBM POWER
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/sea...d5e125cb83e5f66e18a98737eda9e14c.html

Original Advisory:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Aug/0005.html

Other References:
SA17384:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17384/

SA20185:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20185/

SA20225:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20225/

SA20703:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20703/

SA20917:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20917/

SA20953:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20953/

SA21041:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21041/


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