Secunia Security Advisory - SUSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose certain system information, manipulate certain data, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), gain escalated privileges, by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
SUSE update for kernel
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51188
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-11-05
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DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes multiple
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
disclose certain system information, manipulate certain data, cause a
DoS (Denial of Service), gain escalated privileges, by malicious,
local users in a guest virtual machine to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service), and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service)
and compromise a vulnerable system.
For more information:
SA37590
SA42094
SA42354
SA43522
SA44754
SA46423
SA46489
SA46591
SA46803
SA47472
SA47482
SA47486
SA47488
SA49325
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
openSUSE-SU-2012:1439-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00002.html
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