Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists as a flaw was found in the priotree handling of the hugetlb support that allowed a local user to cause a denial of service. This only affected kernels with hugetlb support...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Linux Kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 6338 / 6345 / 6349)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2 kernel was updated to 3.0.31, fixing many bugs and security issues. Various security and bug fixes contained in the Linux 3.0 stable releases 3.0.27 up to 3.0.31 have been included, but are not explicitly listed below. The following notable security issues have be...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2007:0940)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. These ne...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system. These ne...