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kernel: restriction bypass

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2008-4554
Created:October 23, 2008 Updated:June 8, 2009
Description: The kernel has a restriction bypass vulnerability. From the Red Hat bug report:

Miklos Szeredi reported that splice() to files opened with O_APPEND are ignored, which allows users to bypass the append-only restriction.

Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:030 2009-06-08
CentOS CESA-2008:1017 2008-12-17
Red Hat RHSA-2008:1017-01 2008-12-16
Debian DSA-1687-1 2008-12-15
Debian DSA-1681-1 2008-12-04
Ubuntu USN-679-1 2008-11-27
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:224-1 2008-11-07
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:224 2008-11-04
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8929 2008-10-23
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8980 2008-10-23
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0009-02 2009-01-22
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:003 2009-01-20
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