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TITLE:
Red Hat update for kernel

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA47967

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-02-10

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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users and
malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to gain escalated
privileges and by malicious, local users and malicious people to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA46489
SA47296
SA47472

1) An error within the "exit_robust_list()" function does not
properly clear the "robust_list" before making a call to the
"execve()" function, which can be exploited to gain escalated
privileges.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.

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PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Petr Matousek in a Red Hat bug.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2012:0107-1:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0107.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771764

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