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Fedora update for kernel
Secunia Advisory: SA17280
Release Date: 2005-10-21
Popularity: 7,064 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-2973
CVE-2005-3179
CVE-2005-3180
CVE-2005-3181


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

For more information:
SA17114
SA17261

Solution:
Apply updated packages:

Fedora Core 3:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

b318d73186fd0fd67d766ed99a94cec4 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.src.rpm
ff038e4704db0ee2db693d050099be8f x86_64/kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.x86_64.rpm
09286bbbde2549cd1900c457a2e3d660 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.x86_64.rpm
523374734813254de7467001ee674466 x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.x86_64.rpm
445848618621530b6cc7baad2ef26d19 x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.noarch.rpm
d4a8de75b9266120516aa5b98c6e487d i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i586.rpm
3d73f07924f5bbfde019a125973d6629 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i586.rpm
3184729a9389d73853b45821a7f4e7c1 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i586.rpm
033ec1afcf74a67ef3bd0406683fc94d i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i686.rpm
ad156d8dd242346a518319402cde0025 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i686.rpm
8e1448a177888193f6db238f842acb92 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.i686.rpm
445848618621530b6cc7baad2ef26d19 i386/kernel-doc-2.6.12-1.1380_FC3.noarch.rpm

Fedora Core 4:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

0f7703b95fb10eea8ba98fe867b82420 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.src.rpm
7e3ad0a0e7a6e37cbae3776000e11c33 ppc/kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.ppc.rpm
3f2a8e75dac0cec3c90b034d7383611c ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.ppc.rpm
d19ec852ccbc3690abf31d9c9c6a9760 ppc/kernel-smp-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.ppc.rpm
062795f1071ac14c3be8550a8dea7da1 ppc/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.ppc.rpm
155ef19342f4e6a2f7101571d94a806b ppc/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.ppc.rpm
7a6512ba50c89027f29f9ee6287b0c52 ppc/kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.ppc64.rpm
de5f9dbd2f92c109e6716f0be46ee927 ppc/kernel-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.ppc64.rpm
927afe801c27c63b978b56301874741e x86_64/kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.x86_64.rpm
39e31c3cd1e3d1fc0ac5d28883b4bc08 x86_64/kernel-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.x86_64.rpm
7fb1e1c29c22272094f69f91698b3445 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.x86_64.rpm
5f6ba16565169dd9c20273a0ce834b1b x86_64/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.x86_64.rpm
14c9b85f3373eb754d2611a450eff2ef x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.x86_64.rpm
cfe12770e33239b793e4546f773d1c0a x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.noarch.rpm
e69850944046a4d0e3ebca7e9e5733ad i386/kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i586.rpm
e1bf283bb61abfbf567ea9580020cda5 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i586.rpm
e1e6f867ff5f53b084c00cb5bc4bcba0 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i586.rpm
02b9690c11f38be3b2b524c22d975812 i386/kernel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i686.rpm
2da650f41f0f5cfa360a447f8d81f676 i386/kernel-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i686.rpm
756af7f9309326f6ee1535feb9a67ff2 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i686.rpm
4a3027b0eb9aa06447d64f12c63af92b i386/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i686.rpm
5bbf11f714cda26731276905919e9d95 i386/kernel-xen0-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i686.rpm
d69f77d7176ba9d8f8d4950bcf1160df i386/kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i686.rpm
ac59450e8d94759a27c3e3b4a3ee5284 i386/kernel-xenU-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i686.rpm
73ed6e93745c5a45133e00de78606a53 i386/kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i686.rpm
835e768c70b2469e828a2086cdca588b i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.i686.rpm
cfe12770e33239b793e4546f773d1c0a i386/kernel-doc-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.noarch.rpm

Other References:
SA17114:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17114/

SA17261:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17261/


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