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TITLE:
Red Hat update for kernel

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA48294

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-03-07

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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes multiple
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially gain escalated
privileges, by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and by malicious people to cause a
DoS (Denial of Service) and compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA46591
SA46584
SA46802
SA47293
SA47431
SA47472
SA47482
SA47488
SA47551

1) Two errors in the "__sys_sendmsg()" function (net/socket.c) due to
not validating user defined pointers can potentially be exploited to
cause a crash.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.

Further details available in Customer Area:
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ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2012:0350-1:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0350.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761646

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