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kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2009-2908 CVE-2009-2909 CVE-2009-2910
Created:October 16, 2009 Updated:February 15, 2010
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla: A flaw was found in ecryptfs which can result in a NULL pointer dereference. Quoting the commit message: When calling vfs_unlink() on the lower dentry, d_delete() turns the dentry into a negative dentry when the d_count is 1. This eventually caused a NULL pointer deref when a read() or write() was done and the negative dentry's d_inode was dereferenced in ecryptfs_read_update_atime() or ecryptfs_getxattr(). (CVE-2009-2908)

From the Red Hat bugzilla: The ax25 code tried to use

        if (optlen < sizeof(int))
                return -EINVAL;
as a security check against optlen being negative (or zero) in the set socket option. Unfortunately, "sizeof(int)" is an unsigned property, with the result that the whole comparison is done in unsigned, letting negative values slip through. (CVE-2009-2909)

From the Red Hat bugzilla: An information leak was discovered in the kernel where a 32-bit process running in 64-bit mode could possibly read certain 64 bit registers. (CVE-2009-2910)

Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2010:0046 2010-01-20
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0046-01 2010-01-19
SuSE SUSE-SA:2010:012 2010-02-15
CentOS CESA-2009:1671 2009-12-18
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1671-01 2009-12-15
Ubuntu USN-864-1 2009-12-05
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:060 2009-12-02
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:055 2009-11-12
Debian DSA-1928-1 2009-11-05
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1540-01 2009-11-03
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1548-01 2009-11-03
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:051 2009-11-02
Ubuntu USN-852-1 2009-10-22
CentOS CESA-2009:1548 2009-11-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:056 2009-11-16
SuSE SUSE-SA:2009:054 2009-11-11
Debian DSA-1929-1 2009-11-05
Fedora FEDORA-2009-10639 2009-10-21
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:289 2009-10-27
Debian DSA-1915-1 2009-10-22
Fedora FEDORA-2009-10525 2009-10-15

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