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Secunia Advisory SA18562

Red Hat update for kernel
Secunia Advisory SA18562
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Release Date 2006-01-20
   
Popularity 10,457 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
Where From local network
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2002-2185 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2004-1057 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2708 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2709 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2973 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3044 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3180 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3275 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3806 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3848 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3857 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-3858 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people or local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and by malicious people to disclose certain sensitive information.

For more information:
SA17504
SA17261
SA16897
SA17114
SA16494
SA16969
SA17786
SA18523
SA18510

NOTE: An error, in which multiple drivers fail to mark memory with the VM_IO flag and potentially causing kernel panic, has also been fixed.


Solution
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0140.html

Other references
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
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