Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: It was found that a deadlock could occur in the Out of Memory OOM killer. A process could trigger this deadlock by consuming a large amount of memory, and then causing requestmodule to be called. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service excessive...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

[USN-1696-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1696-1 January 18, 2013 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...