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Fedora update for kernel


Secunia ID

SA37302

CVE-ID

CVE-2009-3547, CVE-2009-3621, CVE-2009-3624, 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.

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 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-2009-11032:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00178.html