| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2008:0607.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.
These updated packages fix the following security issue:
* a possible kernel memory leak was found in the Linux kernel Simple
Internet Transition (SIT) INET6 implementation. This could allow a local
unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2008-2136, Important)
As well, these updated packages fix the following bugs:
* a possible kernel hang on hugemem systems, due to a bug in NFS, which may
have caused systems to become unresponsive, has been resolved.
* an inappropriate exit condition occurred in the architecture-specific
mmap() realization, which fell into an infinite loop under certain
conditions. On 64-bit systems, this issue may have manifested itself to
users as a soft lockup, or process hangs.
* due to a bug in hardware initialization in the ohci_hcd kernel module,
the kernel may have failed with a NULL pointer dereference. On 64-bit
PowerPC systems, this may have caused booting to fail, and drop to xmon. On
other platforms, a kernel oops occurred.
* due to insufficient locks in task termination code, a panic may have
occurred in the sys_times() system call on SMP machines.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 users are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.
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-2008-0607.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score:
7.8
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