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TITLE:
Fedora update for kernel

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37163

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37163/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some security
issues and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious,
local users to disclose system and potentially sensitive information,
cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and potentially gain escalated
privileges, and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

For more information:
SA36707
SA36763
SA36927
SA37086

1) An error within the "ecryptfs_unlink()" function in
fs/ecryptfs/inode.c can be exploited to cause a NULL pointer
dereference by performing certain file operations on an eCryptfs
mount.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages using the yum utility ("yum update kernel").

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FEDORA-2009-10639:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00656.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA36707:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36707/

SA36763:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36763/

SA36927:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36927/

SA37086:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37086/

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