RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2012:0107)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0107 advisory. - kernel: ext4: ext4extinsertextent kernel oops CVE-2011-3638 - kernel: jbd2: unmapped buffer with Unwritten or Delay flags set can lead to...

kernel: jbd2: unmapped buffer with _Unwritten or _Delay flags set can lead to DoS

The journalunmapbuffer function in fs/jbd2/transaction.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.1 does not properly handle the Delay and Unwritten buffer head states, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash by leveraging the presence of an ext4 filesystem that was mounted with ...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-274.18.1.0.1.el5 - net bonding: fix carrier detect when bond is down John Haxby orabug 13652598 - fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patchZhenzhong Duan - x86 use dynamic vcpuinfo remap to support more than 32 vcpus Zhenzhong Duan - scsi add additional scsi medium error...