Fedora update for kernel

Secunia ID	SA37295
CVE-ID	CVE-2009-3547, CVE-2009-3612, CVE-2009-3620, CVE-2009-3621, CVE-2009-3638
Release Date	06 Nov 2009
Criticality	Less Critical
Solution Status	Vendor Patch
Where	Local system
Impact	DoS (Denial of Service) This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system. Exposure of sensitive information Vulnerabilities where documents or credentials are leaked or can be revealed either locally or from remote. Privilege escalation This covers vulnerabilities where a user is able to conduct certain tasks with the privileges of other users or administrative users. This typically includes cases where a local user on a client or server system can gain access to the administrator or root account thus taking full control of the system.
Description	Fedora has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and potentially gain escalated privileges. For more information: SA36707 SA37086 SA37233
Solution	Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update kernel").
Original Advisory	FEDORA-2009-11038: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html