7.1 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.048 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.8%
The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.
These new kernel packages contain fixes for the security issues described
below:
a flaw in the ATM subsystem affecting systems with installed ATM hardware
and configured ATM support that allowed a remote user to cause a denial of
service (panic) by accessing socket buffer memory after it has been freed
(CVE-2006-4997, Moderate)
a flaw in the DVD handling of the CDROM driver that could be used
together with a custom built USB device to gain root privileges
(CVE-2006-2935, Moderate)
In addition to the security issues described above, the following bugs are
also addressed:
All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 users are advised to upgrade their kernels
to these updated packages, which contain backported fixes to correct these
issues.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | any | ia64 | kernel | < 2.4.18-e.64 | kernel-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | any | ia64 | kernel-smp | < 2.4.18-e.64 | kernel-smp-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | any | ia64 | kernel-doc | < 2.4.18-e.64 | kernel-doc-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | any | ia64 | kernel-source | < 2.4.18-e.64 | kernel-source-2.4.18-e.64.ia64.rpm |