Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some weaknesses and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose system and potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for kernel
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA42225
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RELEASE DATE:
2010-11-12
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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some
weaknesses and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious,
local users to disclose system and potentially sensitive information,
cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and gain escalated privileges, and by
malicious people to cause a DoS.
For more information:
SA40656
SA41245
SA41378
SA41462
SA41493
SA41650
SA41693
1) An error within the SCTP implementation can be exploited to cause
a crash by sending specially crafted network traffic.
2) An error within the SCTP implementation when handling HMAC
calculations can be exploited to cause a crash by sending specially
crafted network traffic.
3) An error within the RDS implementation can be exploited to execute
arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
2, 3) Red Hat credits Dan Rosenberg
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2010-0842:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html
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