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Red Hat update for kernel
Secunia Advisory:	SA28748	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2008-02-01
Popularity:	6,687 views

Critical:	Moderately critical
Impact:	Security Bypass Manipulation of data Exposure of sensitive information DoS
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

OS:	RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4 RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4 RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4

Subscribe:	Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities

CVE reference:	CVE-2007-4130 CVE-2007-5500 CVE-2007-6063 CVE-2007-6151 CVE-2007-6206 CVE-2007-6694 CVE-2008-0001

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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