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

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security fix update

2.6.32-100.28.11.el6 - fs/partitions: Validate mapcount in Mac partition tables CVE-2011-1010 - nfs4: Ensure that ACL pages sent over NFS were not allocated from the slab v3 CVE-2011-1090 2.6.32-100.28.10.el6 - Use cciss for some Smart Array controller for OL5 orabug 11899706 - CVEs from...

kernel: iovec integer overflow in net/rds/rdma.c

Integer overflow in the rdsrdmapages function in net/rds/rdma.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted iovec struct in a Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS request, which triggers a buffer overflow...

PT-2011-1468

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel version 2.6.35 Description The issue is caused by an integer overflow in the rds cmsg rdma args function, allowing local users to cause a denial of service, potentially leading to a crash, and possibly triggering memory corruption...

kernel: iovec integer overflow in net/rds/rdma.c

Integer overflow in the rdsrdmapages function in net/rds/rdma.c in the Linux kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted iovec struct in a Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS request, which triggers a buffer overflow...