Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71924
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2011:1418
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2011:1418. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issue: * A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's clock implementation on 32-bit, SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) systems. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a divide error fault, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3209, Moderate) Red Hat would like to thank Yasuaki Ishimatsu for reporting this issue. Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1418.html Risk factor : Medium
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-3209 [oss-security] 20111024 kernel; CVE-2011-2942 and CVE-2011-3209 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/24/3 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f8bd2258e2d520dff28c855658bd24bdafb5102d https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732878 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f8bd2258e2d520dff28c855658bd24bdafb5102d
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