K16489: Linux kernel security vulnerabilities CVE-2010-3848, CVE-2010-3849, and CVE-2010-3850

Security Advisory Description CVE-2010-3848 Stack-based buffer overflow in the econetsendmsg function in net/econet/afeconet.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2, when an econet address is configured, allows local users to gain privileges by providing a large number of iovec structures...

SuSE 10 Security Update : the Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7303)

This kernel update for the SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP3 kernel fixes several security issues and bugs. The following security issues were fixed : - A local attacker could use a Oops kernel crash caused by other flaws to write a 0 byte to a attacker controlled address in the kernel. This could lea...