RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2011:0303-01 - Fixes security issues including denial of service attacks and information leak
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 199 |
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Tenable Nessus | Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64 | 1 Aug 201200:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0303) | 12 Jul 201300:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2011:0303) | 2 Mar 201100:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2011:0303) | 15 Apr 201100:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64 | 1 Aug 201200:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2011:0263) | 17 Feb 201100:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2011-0263) | 12 Jul 201300:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2011-2010) | 12 Jul 201300:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1146-1) | 13 Jun 201100:00 | – | nessus |
Tenable Nessus | Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2011-2016) | 12 Jul 201300:00 | – | nessus |
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redhat | www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2011-March/msg00000.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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This update fixes the following security issues:
* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's garbage collector for AF_UNIX
sockets. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to trigger a
denial of service (out-of-memory condition). (CVE-2010-4249, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking subsystem. If the
number of packets received exceeded the receiver's buffer limit, they were
queued in a backlog, consuming memory, instead of being discarded. A remote
attacker could abuse this flaw to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory
condition). (CVE-2010-4251, Moderate)
* A missing initialization flaw was found in the ethtool_get_regs()
function in the Linux kernel's ethtool IOCTL handler. A local user who has
the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could use this flaw to cause an information
leak. (CVE-2010-4655, Low)
Red Hat would like to thank Vegard Nossum for reporting CVE-2010-4249, and
Kees Cook for reporting CVE-2010-4655.
This update also fixes several bugs. Documentation for these bug fixes will
be available shortly from the Technical Notes document linked to in the
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include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = rpm_get_ssh_release();
if(!release) exit(0);
res = "";
if(release == "RHENT_5")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel", rpm:"kernel~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-PAE", rpm:"kernel-PAE~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-PAE-debuginfo", rpm:"kernel-PAE-debuginfo~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-PAE-devel", rpm:"kernel-PAE-devel~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-debug", rpm:"kernel-debug~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-debug-debuginfo", rpm:"kernel-debug-debuginfo~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-debug-devel", rpm:"kernel-debug-devel~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-debuginfo", rpm:"kernel-debuginfo~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-debuginfo-common", rpm:"kernel-debuginfo-common~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-devel", rpm:"kernel-devel~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-headers", rpm:"kernel-headers~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-xen", rpm:"kernel-xen~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-xen-debuginfo", rpm:"kernel-xen-debuginfo~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-xen-devel", rpm:"kernel-xen-devel~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"kernel-doc", rpm:"kernel-doc~2.6.18~238.5.1.el5", rls:"RHENT_5")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99);
exit(0);
}
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