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"From 2007 to 2009 vulnerabilities in a typical end-user PC almost doubled from about 220 to 420."

Non-Microsoft software to blame for increase in vulnerabilities affecting typical Windows end-users, read more:

http://secunia.com/gfx/pdf/Secunia_Half_Year_Report_2010.pdf


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TITLE:
SUSE update for kernel

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA40645

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http://secunia.com/advisories/40645/
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=40645

RELEASE DATE:
2010-07-22

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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), bypass certain security
restrictions, and potentially gain escalated privileges, and by
malicious people to cause a DoS.

For more information:
SA32933
SA35265
SA38594
SA39490

1) A race condition within the "find_keyring_by_name()" function in
security/keys/keyring.c can be exploited to access freed memory and
e.g. cause a system panic.

2) An error exists within the kgdb implementation for the PowerPC
architecture, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
write to kernel memory.

3) An error exists within the "gfs2_set_flags()" function, which can
be exploited to change certain file attributes of files on an GFS2
file system.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SUSE-SA:2010:031:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-07/msg00006.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

EXTENDED SOLUTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

EXPLOIT:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

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