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TITLE:
Red Hat update for kernel

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38226

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38226/

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 system information. manipulate certain data, cause a
DoS (Denial of Service), and potentially gain escalated privileges,
and by malicious people to cause a DoS.

For more information:
SA23349
SA32320
SA35705
SA36927
SA37435
SA37590
SA38199

1) The qla2xxx driver for QLogic Fibre Channel PCI/PCIe host adapters
sets world-writable permissions for the "/sys/class/scsi_host/[a
qla2xxx host]/vport_create" and "/sys/class/scsi_host/[a qla2xxx
host]/vport_delete" files, which can be exploited to change certain
SCSI attributes.

Note: This only affects systems using the qla2xxx driver with NPIV
capable hardware.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2010-0046:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0046.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA23349:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23349/

SA32320:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32320/

SA35705:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35705/

SA36927:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36927/

SA37435:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37435/

SA37590:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37590/

SA38199:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38199/

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