openSUSE Security Update : kernel (kernel-951)

This kernel update for openSUSE 11.0 fixes some bugs and several security problems. The following security issues are fixed: A local denial of service problem in the splice2 system call. CVE-2009-1630: The nfspermission function in fs/nfs/dir.c in the NFS client implementation in the Linux kernel...

CVE-2009-1242

The vmxsetmsr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the VMX implementation in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29.1 on the i386 platform allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service OOPS by setting the EFERLME aka "Long mode enable" bit in the Extended Feature Enable Register EF...

CVE-2009-1242: Improper Input Validation

The vmxsetmsr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the VMX implementation in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29.1 on the i386 platform allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service OOPS by setting the EFERLME aka "Long mode enable" bit in the Extended Feature Enable Register EF...