Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes multiple weaknesses and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially gain escalated privileges, by malicious, local users to disclose system information and cause a DoS, and by malicious people to cause a DoS.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for kernel
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44792
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-06-02
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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes multiple
weaknesses and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious,
local users in a guest virtual machine to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service) and potentially gain escalated privileges, by malicious,
local users to disclose system information and cause a DoS, and by
malicious people to cause a DoS.
For more information:
SA43537
SA43803
SA43806
1) A boundary error within the "get_free_port()" function can be
exploited to cause a crash and potentially gain escalated privileges.
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
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ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2011:0833-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html
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