openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2010:0895-2)

This security update of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 GA kernel updates the kernel to 2.6.27.54 and fixes various security issues and other bugs. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2010-3310: Multiple integer signedness errors in net/rose/afrose.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 3068 / 3069 / 3070)

This SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 1 kernel contains various security fixes and lots of other bugfixes. Notable larger bugfixes and changes : - 603464: Fix system freezewhen doing a network crashdump with a netxennic driver - 610828: Avoid kernel failure on connects/disconnects to a novel...

CVE-2010-2946: Improper Input Validation

fs/jfs/xattr.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35.2 does not properly handle a certain legacy format for storage of extended attributes, which might allow local users by bypass intended xattr namespace restrictions via an "os2." substring at the beginning of a name...