Secunia Security Advisory - Mandriva has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges or to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and by malicious people to cause a DoS.
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TITLE:
Mandriva update for kernel
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23593
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23593/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, DoS
WHERE:
>From remote
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Mandriva Linux 2007
http://secunia.com/product/12165/
DESCRIPTION:
Mandriva has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
gain escalated privileges or to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and
by malicious people to cause a DoS.
For more information:
SA22665
SA22702
SA23073
SA23361
SA23427
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
Mandriva Linux 2007
7eba457234782c9f83c47cd26be3de80
2007.0/i586/kernel-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
80f104e8ff3081e7e868e3482f50fd81
2007.0/i586/kernel-enterprise-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
72964c8645531460b742f9e54d118488
2007.0/i586/kernel-legacy-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
bc52255a4290284600dfc0e97e5797cd
2007.0/i586/kernel-source-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
fbfc24233bf616eab08b247194210fe7
2007.0/i586/kernel-source-stripped-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
e30ec4041c80756ab8e004b6335337cd
2007.0/i586/kernel-xen0-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
4da4e24805a2a2301bf7f97f6e0fb974
2007.0/i586/kernel-xenU-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
0cb62354da7ae0bd1dd6b851bedd9496
2007.0/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64
c2aca75ee9ca338eb178e51fec0867fc
2007.0/x86_64/evince-0.6.0-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
d4c8250e75b57b227b308e2a975ae13c
2007.0/x86_64/kernel-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
3cb5a059bc3d352da95fb285f2c31f80
2007.0/x86_64/kernel-source-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
9ff265225b8624a083058b5ec16174c2
2007.0/x86_64/kernel-source-stripped-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
23ba072d883bac51179e42df654aba79
2007.0/x86_64/kernel-xen0-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
268ac512e41476f1e0df9d94299c317b
2007.0/x86_64/kernel-xenU-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
0cb62354da7ae0bd1dd6b851bedd9496
2007.0/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.17.8mdv-1-1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:002
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA22665:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22665/
SA22702:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22702/
SA23073:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23073/
SA23361:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23361/
SA23427:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23427/
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