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Fedora update for kernel
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA37075
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Release Date:
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2009-10-16
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Popularity:
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775 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of system information
Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Fedora 10
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Description:
Fedora has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes a security issue and a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose certain system information and potentially gain escalated privileges.
1) A security issue exists due to the kernel not properly clearing certain 64bit registers before returning to a 32bit process
For more information:
SA36927
2) An error within the "ecryptfs_unlink()" function in fs/ecryptfs/inode.c can be exploited to cause a NULL pointer dereference by performing certain file operations on an eCryptfs mount.
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