Security Advisory SA49628 - SUSE update for kernel

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Secunia Advisory SA49628

SUSE update for kernel

Secunia Advisory

SA49628

Release Date

2012-06-20

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation
DoS

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Operating System

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2011-2928 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-4077 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-4324 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2011-4330 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-2313 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
CVE-2012-2319 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

SUSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA46591
SA48645 (#2)

Solution
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.
Original Advisory
SUSE-SU-2012:0736-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00017.html

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