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Secunia Advisory SA39033

Red Hat update for kernel-rt
Secunia Advisory SA39033
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Release Date 2010-03-24
   
Popularity 1,968 view
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
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
   
Software:
Red Hat Enterprise MRG v1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 5)
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-4141 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0003 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0007 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0291 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0410 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0415 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0437 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2010-0622 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Red Hat has issued an update for kernel-rt. This fixes some security issues and 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 potentially gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA38133
SA38199
SA38229
SA38317
SA38502

1) A NULL pointer dereference error within the "ip6_dst_lookup_tail()" function can be exploited to cause a kernel crash by sending specially crafted IPv6 traffic to a vulnerable system.


Solution
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
RHSA-2010-0161:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0161.html

Other references
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