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Fedora update for kernel
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA37163
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Release Date:
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2009-10-27
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Popularity:
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324 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
Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Fedora 11
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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:
Fedora has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some security issues and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose system and potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and potentially gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
For more information:
SA36707
SA36763
SA36927
SA37086
1) 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.
Change Page:
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