Information Disclosure

kernel is vulnerable to information disclosure. An information leak was found in the Linux kernel's taskshowregs implementation. On IBM S/390 systems, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to read /proc/PID/status files, allowing them to discover the CPU register values of processes...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

This update fixes the following security issues : - A flaw was found in the sctpicmpprotounreachable function in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP implementation. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. CVE-2010-4526, Important - A missing...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-71.24.1.el6 - fs Revert 'fs inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure' Eric Paris 656831 656832 CVE-2010-4250 2.6.32-71.23.1.el6 - x86 Revert 'x86 mtrr: Assume SYSCFGTom2ForceMemTypeWB exists on all future AMD CPUs' Frank Arnold 683813 652208 2.6.32-71.22.1.el6 - rebuild...