Security Advisory SA36952 - Fedora update for kernel

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Secunia Advisory SA36952

Fedora update for kernel

Secunia Advisory

SA36952

Release Date

2009-10-05

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information
DoS

Where

From local network

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Operating System

Fedora 10

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2009-2847 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-2903 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-3001 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-3002 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2009-3290 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

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

For more information:
SA36136
SA36438
SA36707
SA36763

Solution
Apply updated packages using the yum utility ("yum update kernel").
Original Advisory
FEDORA-2009-10165:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00058.html

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