7.2 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
0.4%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0938
The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.
A flaw was found in ia32 emulation affecting users running 64-bit versions
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86_64 architectures. A local user could
use this flaw to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2007-4573).
Red Hat would like to thank Wojciech Purczynski for reporting this issue.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users are advised to upgrade to these packages,
which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/076409.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/076411.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/076412.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/076414.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-September/089163.html
Affected packages:
kernel
kernel-BOOT
kernel-doc
kernel-hugemem
kernel-hugemem-unsupported
kernel-smp
kernel-smp-unsupported
kernel-source
kernel-unsupported
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0938
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 3 | i586 | kernel | < 2.4.21-52.EL | kernel-2.4.21-52.EL.i586.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i686 | kernel | < 2.4.21-52.EL | kernel-2.4.21-52.EL.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i386 | kernel-boot | < 2.4.21-52.EL | kernel-BOOT-2.4.21-52.EL.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i386 | kernel-doc | < 2.4.21-52.EL | kernel-doc-2.4.21-52.EL.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i686 | kernel-hugemem | < 2.4.21-52.EL | kernel-hugemem-2.4.21-52.EL.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i686 | kernel-hugemem-unsupported | < 2.4.21-52.EL | kernel-hugemem-unsupported-2.4.21-52.EL.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i686 | kernel-smp | < 2.4.21-52.EL | kernel-smp-2.4.21-52.EL.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i686 | kernel-smp-unsupported | < 2.4.21-52.EL | kernel-smp-unsupported-2.4.21-52.EL.i686.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i386 | kernel-source | < 2.4.21-52.EL | kernel-source-2.4.21-52.EL.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 3 | i586 | kernel-unsupported | < 2.4.21-52.EL | kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-52.EL.i586.rpm |
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