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Secunia Advisory SA28806

SUSE update for kernel
Secunia Advisory SA28806
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Release Date 2008-02-08
Last Update 2008-02-13
   
Popularity 8,708 views
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact Unknown
Security Bypass
Manipulation of data
Privilege escalation
DoS
Where From remote
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
openSUSE 10.2
openSUSE 10.3
SUSE Linux 10.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-2242 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-3740 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-3843 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-3848 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-4308 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-4997 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-5966 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-6063 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2007-6417 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-0001 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-0007 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2008-0731 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

SUSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some security issues and vulnerabilities, where some have unknown impacts and others can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, corrupt a file system, and gain escalated privileges, or by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA25068
SA26322
SA26366
SA27555
SA27908
SA27842
SA28105
SA28485


Solution
Apply updated packages.
Further details available in Customer Area

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00002.html

Other references
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Deep Links
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