openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2011:0004-1)

The openSUSE 11.3 kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. Following security issues have been fixed: CVE-2010-4347: A local user could inject ACPI code into the kernel via the world-writable 'customdebug' file, allowing local privilege escalation. CVE-2010-4258: A local attack...

CVE-2010-4081

The sndhdspmhwdepioctl function in sound/pci/rme9652/hdspm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc6 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an SNDRVHDSPMIOCTLGETCONFIGINFO ioctl call...