kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2011:0833 Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scorin...

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

Updated kernel-rt packages that fix multiple security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 1.3. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

Design/Logic Flaw

net/packet/afpacket.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc2 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory by leveraging the CAPNETRAW capability to read copies of the applicable structures...

CVE-2009-0949

The ippReadIO function in cups/ipp.c in cupsd in CUPS before 1.3.10 does not properly initialize memory for IPP request packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash via a scheduler request with two consecutive IPPTAGUNSUPPORTED tags...