Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some weaknesses and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose system and potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS.

For more information:
SA40656
SA41245
SA41378
SA41462
SA41493
SA41650
SA41693

1) An error within the SCTP implementation can be exploited to cause a crash by sending specially crafted network traffic.

2) An error within the SCTP implementation when handling HMAC calculations can be exploited to cause a crash by sending specially crafted network traffic.

3) An error within the RDS implementation can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

Solution
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
2, 3) Red Hat credits Dan Rosenberg

Original Advisory
RHSA-2010-0842:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html

Other references
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