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Red Hat update for kernel
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA28748
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Release Date:
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2008-02-01
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
Manipulation of data
Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2007-4130 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-5500 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-6063 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-6151 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-6206 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-6694 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0001 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some security issues and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and corrupt a file system, and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
This also fixes an error within the page fault handling on Itanium architectures when a CPU used the NUMA method for accessing memory, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS.
For more information:
SA27664
SA27842
SA27908
SA28485
SA28696
Solution:
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com
Original Advisory:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0055.html
Other References:
SA27664:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27664/
SA27842:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27842/
SA27908:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27908/
SA28485:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28485/
SA28696:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28696/
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