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TITLE:
SUSE update for kernel

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA43291

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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http://secunia.com/advisories/43291/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=43291

RELEASE DATE:
2011-02-11

DISCUSS ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/43291/#comments

AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA:
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 * Impact
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 * CVE Reference(s)

http://secunia.com/advisories/43291/

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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=43291

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 * AUTOMATED SCANNING

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/

DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for kernel. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of
Service), disclose certain system information, disclose sensitive
information, and potentially gain escalated privileges and by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA40965
SA41284
SA41440
SA41493
SA41650
SA42035
SA42094
SA42684
SA42765
SA43056

1) An error within the Econet protocol implementation can be
exploited to cause a crash by sending Acorn Universal Networking
packets over UDP.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SUSE-SA:2011:008:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00002.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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About:
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private users keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

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