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kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2010-4238 CVE-2010-4243 CVE-2010-4255 CVE-2010-4343
Created:January 13, 2011 Updated:September 14, 2011
Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

* A missing sanity check was found in vbd_create() in the Xen hypervisor implementation. As CD-ROM drives are not supported by the blkback back-end driver, attempting to use a virtual CD-ROM drive with blkback could trigger a denial of service (crash) on the host system running the Xen hypervisor. (CVE-2010-4238, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel execve() system call implementation. A local, unprivileged user could cause large amounts of memory to be allocated but not visible to the OOM (Out of Memory) killer, triggering a denial of service. (CVE-2010-4243, Moderate)

* A flaw was found in fixup_page_fault() in the Xen hypervisor implementation. If a 64-bit para-virtualized guest accessed a certain area of memory, it could cause a denial of service on the host system running the Xen hypervisor. (CVE-2010-4255, Moderate)

* A missing initialization flaw was found in the bfa driver used by Brocade Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by reading a file in the "/sys/class/fc_host/host#/statistics/" directory. (CVE-2010-4343, Moderate)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1204-1 2011-09-13
Ubuntu USN-1202-1 2011-09-13
Red Hat RHSA-2011:1253-01 2011-09-12
Ubuntu USN-1186-1 2011-08-09
Ubuntu USN-1167-1 2011-07-13
Ubuntu USN-1159-1 2011-07-13
Ubuntu USN-1162-1 2011-06-29
Ubuntu USN-1141-1 2011-05-31
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:017 2011-04-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0346-1 2011-04-18
Ubuntu USN-1093-1 2011-03-25
SUSE SUSE-SA:2011:012 2011-03-08
Ubuntu USN-1080-2 2011-03-02
Ubuntu USN-1080-1 2011-03-01
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0399-1 2011-04-28
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0283-01 2011-02-22
Debian DSA-2153-1 2011-01-30
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0017-01 2011-01-13

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