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TITLE:
Red Hat update for kernel

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46972

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-11-23

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

For more information:
SA43576
SA43846
SA45420
SA45489
SA45695
SA45936

1) The weakness is caused due to an error within the handling of VLAN
0 frames with the priority tag set, which can be exploited to cause a
kernel panic.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.

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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Gideon Naim.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2011:1465-01:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1465.html

Red Hat Bug#742846:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742846

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