Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and a bug in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

CVE-2007-6694: Undefined Security Weakness

The chrpshowcpuinfo function chrp/setup.c in Linux kernel 2.4.21 through 2.6.18-53, when running on PowerPC, might allow local users to cause a denial of service crash via unknown vectors that cause the ofgetproperty function to fail, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference...