potential local privilege escalation in kernel

2009-11-0217:52:48

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0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

8.6%

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The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 and openSUSE 11.1 kernel was updated to 2.6.27.37 fixing various bugs and security issues.

Solution

There is no known workaround, please install the update packages.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
openSUSE11.1ppckernel-ps3< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1kernel-ps3-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.ppc.rpm
openSUSE11.1ppckernel-kdump-debugsource< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1kernel-kdump-debugsource-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.ppc.rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server11ia64kernel-default< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1kernel-default-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.ia64.rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server11ppc64kernel-syms< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1kernel-syms-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.ppc64.rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension11i586cluster-network-kmp-pae< 1.4_2.6.27.37_0.1-2.1.18cluster-network-kmp-pae-1.4_2.6.27.37_0.1-2.1.18.i586.rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server11x86_64ext4dev-kmp-default< 0_2.6.27.37_0.1-7.1.18ext4dev-kmp-default-0_2.6.27.37_0.1-7.1.18.x86_64.rpm
openSUSE11.1i586kernel-debug< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1kernel-debug-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.i586.rpm
openSUSE11.1i586kernel-trace-debuginfo< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1kernel-trace-debuginfo-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.i586.rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server11ppc64kernel-default-debugsource< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1kernel-default-debugsource-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.ppc64.rpm
openSUSE11.1x86_64kernel-ec2-extra< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1kernel-ec2-extra-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
openSUSE	11.1	ppc	kernel-ps3	< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1	kernel-ps3-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.ppc.rpm
openSUSE	11.1	ppc	kernel-kdump-debugsource	< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1	kernel-kdump-debugsource-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.ppc.rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	11	ia64	kernel-default	< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1	kernel-default-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.ia64.rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	11	ppc64	kernel-syms	< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1	kernel-syms-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.ppc64.rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension	11	i586	cluster-network-kmp-pae	< 1.4_2.6.27.37_0.1-2.1.18	cluster-network-kmp-pae-1.4_2.6.27.37_0.1-2.1.18.i586.rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	11	x86_64	ext4dev-kmp-default	< 0_2.6.27.37_0.1-7.1.18	ext4dev-kmp-default-0_2.6.27.37_0.1-7.1.18.x86_64.rpm
openSUSE	11.1	i586	kernel-debug	< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1	kernel-debug-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.i586.rpm
openSUSE	11.1	i586	kernel-trace-debuginfo	< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1	kernel-trace-debuginfo-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.i586.rpm
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server	11	ppc64	kernel-default-debugsource	< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1	kernel-default-debugsource-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.ppc64.rpm
openSUSE	11.1	x86_64	kernel-ec2-extra	< 2.6.27.37-0.1.1	kernel-ec2-extra-2.6.27.37-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm