Privilege Escalation

kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The i915 driver in drivers/char/drm/i915dma.c and sys/dev/pci/drm/i915drv.c does not restrict the DRMI915HWSADDR ioctl to the Direct Rendering Manager master, allowing for local privilege escalation. Note: the flaw only affects systems based on the...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2008-1017)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-1017 advisory. - drm i915 driver arbitrary ioremap Eugene Teo 464508 464509 CVE-2008-3831 - fs don't allow splice to files opened with OAPPEND Eugene Teo 466709 46671...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:1017 Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel...

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

Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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...