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openSUSE Security Update : kernel (kernel-1097)

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The openSUSE 11.1 kernel was updated to fix various bugs and several security issues. It was also updated to the stable release 2.6.27.25. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2009-1961: A local denial of service problem in the splice(2) system call was fixed. CVE-2009-1389: A crash on r8169 network cards when receiving large packets was fixed. CVE-2009-1385: Integer underflow in the e1000_clean_rx_irq function in drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c in the e1000 driver in the Linux kernel, the e1000e driver in the Linux kernel, and Intel Wired Ethernet (aka e1000) before 7.5.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via a crafted frame size. CVE-2009-1630: The nfs_permission function in fs/nfs/dir.c in the NFS client implementation in the Linux kernel, when atomic_open is available, does not check execute (aka EXEC or MAY_EXEC) permission bits, which allows local users to bypass permissions and execute files, as demonstrated by files on an NFSv4 fileserver


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