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RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0009

Description

The remote host is missing updates to the kernel announced in advisory RHSA-2009:0009. These updated packages address the following security issues: * Tavis Ormandy discovered a deficiency in the Linux kernel 32-bit and 64-bit emulation. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to prepare and run a specially-crafted binary which would use this deficiency to leak uninitialized and potentially sensitive data. (CVE-2008-0598, Important) * Olaf Kirch reported a flaw in the i915 kernel driver that only affects the Intel G33 series and newer. This flaw could, potentially, lead to local privilege escalation. (CVE-2008-3831, Important) * Miklos Szeredi reported a missing check for files opened with O_APPEND in sys_splice(). This could allow a local, unprivileged user to bypass the append-only file restrictions. (CVE-2008-4554, Important) * a deficiency was found in the Linux kernel Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation. This could lead to a possible denial of service if one end of a SCTP connection did not support the AUTH extension. (CVE-2008-4576, Important) * Wei Yongjun reported a flaw in the Linux kernel SCTP implementation. In certain code paths, sctp_sf_violation_paramlen() could be called with a wrong parameter data type. This could lead to a possible denial of service. (CVE-2008-4618, Important) * when fput() was called to close a socket, the __scm_destroy() function in the Linux kernel could make indirect recursive calls to itself. This could, potentially, lead to a denial of service issue. (CVE-2008-5029, Important) * the ext2 and ext3 filesystem code failed to properly handle corrupted data structures, leading to a possible local denial of service issue when read or write operations were performed. (CVE-2008-3528, Low) All Red Hat Enterprise MRG users should install this update which addresses these vulnerabilities and fixes these bugs.


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