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ELSA-2008-0089 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

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ELSA-2008-0089 Important: Enterprise Linux kernel security and bug fix update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

06/26/2007

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

04/11/2019

Description

The sysfs_readdir function in the Linux kernel 2.6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.5 and other distributions, allows users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) by dereferencing a null pointer to an inode in a dentry.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-debug
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-doc
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-headers
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-pae
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-pae-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xen
oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-xen-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-ocfs2
oracle-linux-upgrade-oracleasm

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2007-3104
24631
27280
CVE - 2007-3104
CVE - 2008-0001
DSA-1428
DSA-1479
OVAL11233
OVAL9709
RHSA-2007:0488
RHSA-2008:0055
RHSA-2008:0089
SUSE-SA:2007:064
SUSE-SA:2008:006
SUSE-SA:2008:013
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2008-January/000498.html
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