Secunia Security Advisory - OpenVZ has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some weaknesses and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose certain system information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges and by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine and malicious people to cause a DoS.
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TITLE:
OpenVZ update for kernel
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46287
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-10-24
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DESCRIPTION:
OpenVZ has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some
weaknesses and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious,
local users to disclose certain system information, cause a DoS
(Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges and by malicious,
local users in a guest virtual machine and malicious people to cause
a DoS.
For more information:
SA45897
SOLUTION:
Update kernel branch RHEL5 to version 028stab094.3.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5/028stab094.3
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