Information Leakage

The kernel packages is vulnerable to an information leakage. A flaw was found in the printfatalsignal implementation in the Linux kernel. When "/proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals" is set to 1 the default value is 0, memory that is reachable by the kernel could be leaked to user-space. This issu...

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

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 Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

Memory corruption

The printfatalsignal function in kernel/signal.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.4 on the i386 platform, when print-fatal-signals is enabled, allows local users to discover the contents of arbitrary memory locations by jumping to an address and then reading a log file, and might allow local use...

CVE-2010-0003

The printfatalsignal function in kernel/signal.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32.4 on the i386 platform, when print-fatal-signals is enabled, allows local users to discover the contents of arbitrary memory locations by jumping to an address and then reading a log file, and might allow local use...