Privilege Escalation

kernel is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The SOCKOPSWRAP macro did not initialize the sendpage operation in the protoops structure correctly. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a local denial of service or escalate their privileges...

Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2009-1223)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:1223 : Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2009:1457)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Extended Update Support. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2009:1469)

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 Extended Update Support. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:1223 centos4 i386

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:1223 centos4 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:1233 centos3 i386

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:1233 centos3 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2009:1222 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 Extended Update Support. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1457

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1457. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues: Michael Tokarev reported a flaw in the Realtek r8169 Ethernet driver in the Linux kernel...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1222 Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the...