Secunia Security Advisory - SUSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive information, and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS.
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TITLE:
SUSE update for kernel
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32370
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32370/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation, DoS
WHERE:
>From local network
OPERATING SYSTEM:
openSUSE 10.3
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/16124/
DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive
information, and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people
to cause a DoS.
For more information:
SA30580
SA31048
SA31366
SA31509
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.
x86 Platform:
openSUSE 10.3:
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-bigsmp-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-debug-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-default-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-source-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-syms-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-xen-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-xenpae-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm
Power PC Platform:
openSUSE 10.3:
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/ppc/kernel-default-2.6.22.19-0.1.ppc.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/ppc/kernel-kdump-2.6.22.19-0.1.ppc.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/ppc/kernel-ppc64-2.6.22.19-0.1.ppc.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/ppc/kernel-source-2.6.22.19-0.1.ppc.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/ppc/kernel-syms-2.6.22.19-0.1.ppc.rpm
x86-64 Platform:
openSUSE 10.3:
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/kernel-debug-2.6.22.19-0.1.x86_64.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/kernel-default-2.6.22.19-0.1.x86_64.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/kernel-source-2.6.22.19-0.1.x86_64.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/kernel-syms-2.6.22.19-0.1.x86_64.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/kernel-xen-2.6.22.19-0.1.x86_64.rpm
Sources:
openSUSE 10.3:
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-bigsmp-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-debug-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-default-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-kdump-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-ppc64-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-source-2.6.22.19-0.1.src.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-syms-2.6.22.19-0.1.src.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-xen-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-xenpae-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SUSE-SA:2008:052:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00008.html
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA30580:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30580/
SA31048:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31048/
SA31366:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31366/
SA31509:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31509/
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