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TITLE:
Red Hat update for kernel

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28748

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28748/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Manipulation of data, Exposure of sensitive
information, DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
http://secunia.com/product/4668/
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4669/
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
http://secunia.com/product/4670/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some security
issues and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local
users to disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain
security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and corrupt a
file system, and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

This also fixes an error within the page fault handling on Itanium
architectures when a CPU used the NUMA method for accessing memory,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS.

For more information:
SA27664
SA27842
SA27908
SA28485
SA28696

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available from Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0055.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27664:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27664/

SA27842:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27842/

SA27908:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27908/

SA28485:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28485/

SA28696:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28696/

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