SuSE 10 Security Update : ia32el (ZYPP Patch Number 6466)

A 32bit x86 user program could crash the Itanium IA64 kernel in the IA 32 Intel 32bit emulation. CVE-2009-2707 Updating IA32EL to 70427022, the same version as shipped on SLES 10 SP3, fixes this problem. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text description of this plugin is C...

CVE-2009-2707

The CVE-2009-2707 issue affects SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 on Itanium IA64, where the ia32el IA32 emulation layer can be leveraged by a local 32-bit x86 application to cause a kernel crash (DoS). The vulnerability is described as an unspecified defect in ia32el prior to version 7042_7022...