Privilege Escalation

kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The vulnerability exists through a flaw in the linkpathwalk function. Using the file descriptor returned by open with the ONOFOLLOW flag on a subordinate NFS-mounted file system, could result in a NULL pointer dereference, causing a denial of service ...

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2009:1132)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. 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 Linux...