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| Secunia ID | |
| CVE-ID | |
| Release Date |
06 Nov 2009 |
| Criticality | |
| Solution Status |
Vendor Patch |
| Where | |
| 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. Privilege escalationThis 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 cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially gain escalated privileges. |
| Solution |
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update kernel"). |
| Original Advisory |
FEDORA-2009-11032: |