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SUSE update for kernel
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30818
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Release Date:
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2008-06-23
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Popularity:
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3,436 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
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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: | openSUSE 10.2
openSUSE 10.3
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Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
SUSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some 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 gain escalated privileges, and malicious people to cause a DoS and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
For more information:
SA27666
SA27908
SA28835
SA30044
SA30101
SA30241
A vulnerability is caused due to missing feature length validation within the "dccp_feat_change()" function in net/dccp/feat.c, which can be exploited to cause an overflow and execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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