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kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2010-3699 CVE-2010-4161 CVE-2010-4242 CVE-2010-4247
Created:January 4, 2011 Updated:July 15, 2011
Description: From the Red Hat advisory:

* A flaw was found in the Xenbus code for the unified block-device I/O interface back end. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service on the host system running the Xen hypervisor. (CVE-2010-3699)

* The fix for Red Hat Bugzilla bug 484590 as provided in RHSA-2009:1243 introduced a regression. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4161)

* A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Bluetooth HCI UART driver in the Linux kernel. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4242)

* It was found that a malicious guest running on the Xen hypervisor could place invalid data in the memory that the guest shared with the blkback and blktap back-end drivers, resulting in a denial of service on the host system. (CVE-2010-4247)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1204-1 2011-09-13
Ubuntu USN-1202-1 2011-09-13
Ubuntu USN-1170-1 2011-07-15
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:017 2011-04-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0346-1 2011-04-18
Ubuntu USN-1105-1 2011-04-05
Ubuntu USN-1092-1 2011-03-25
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:015 2011-03-24
Ubuntu USN-1089-1 2011-03-18
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0330-01 2011-03-10
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:012 2011-03-08
Ubuntu USN-1072-1 2011-02-25
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:008 2011-02-11
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0399-1 2011-04-28
Debian DSA-2153-1 2011-01-30
CentOS CESA-2011:0162 2011-01-27
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:005 2011-01-25
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0162-01 2011-01-18
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0007-01 2011-01-11
CentOS CESA-2011:0004 2011-01-06
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0004-01 2011-01-04

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