Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities and weaknesses, which can be exploited by malicious local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive information, or gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for kernel
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA41667
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RELEASE DATE:
2010-10-01
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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes multiple
vulnerabilities and weaknesses, which can be exploited by malicious
local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose potentially
sensitive information, or gain escalated privileges, and by malicious
people to disclose potentially sensitive information.
For more information:
SA38601
SA39490
SA40205
SA41245
1) An error exists within eCryptfs when generating hash values, which
can be exploited to e.g. cause a kernel panic or gain escalated
privileges.
2) An error within the GFS2 file system when handing certain rename
operations can be exploited to cause a kernel crash.
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
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