Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. The fix for Red Hat Bugzilla bug 656461, as provided in RHSA-2011:0542, introduced a regression in the cifsclose function in the Linux kernel's Common Internet File System CIFS implementation. A local, unprivileged user with write access to a CIFS file...

RHEL 6 : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 kernel (RHSA-2011:0542)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0542 advisory. - kvm: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c: reading uninitialized stack memory CVE-2010-3881 - kernel: unlimited socket backlog DoS CVE-2010-4251,...