SuSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or gain escalated privileges.

1) An error in the iptables firewall logging rules can be exploited by malicious people to crash a vulnerable system via a specially crafted IP packet.

For more information:
SA11202

2) Insecure handling of a privileged instruction can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain root privileges.

The second vulnerability affects SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 on the S/390 platform.

Solution
Apply updated packages.
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Provided and/or discovered by
1) Richard Hart
2) Martin Schwidefsky

Original Advisory
http://www.suse.de/de/security/2004_37_kernel.html

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