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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.66669
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1588
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2009:1588.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux
operating system.

This update fixes the following security issues:

* a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in each of the following
functions in the Linux kernel: pipe_read_open(), pipe_write_open(), and
pipe_rdwr_open(). When the mutex lock is not held, the i_pipe pointer could
be released by other processes before it is used to update the pipe's
reader and writer counters. This could lead to a local denial of service or
privilege escalation. (CVE-2009-3547, Important)

Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported
patch to correct these issues. 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-2009-1588.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-20481

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
6.9

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3547
20100625 VMSA-2010-0010 ESX 3.5 third party update for Service Console kernel
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/512019/100/0/threaded
36901
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36901
37351
http://secunia.com/advisories/37351
38017
http://secunia.com/advisories/38017
38794
http://secunia.com/advisories/38794
38834
http://secunia.com/advisories/38834
ADV-2010-0528
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528
FEDORA-2009-11038
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html
MDVSA-2009:329
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:329
RHSA-2009:1540
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html
RHSA-2009:1541
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1541.html
RHSA-2009:1548
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1548.html
RHSA-2009:1550
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1550.html
RHSA-2009:1672
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1672.html
SUSE-SA:2009:054
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00005.html
SUSE-SA:2009:056
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00007.html
SUSE-SA:2010:001
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00000.html
SUSE-SA:2010:012
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html
USN-864-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1
[linux-kernel] 20091014 fs/pipe.c null pointer dereference
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/14/184
[linux-kernel] 20091021 Re: [PATCH v4 1/1]: fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference + really sign off + unmangled diffs
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/21/42
[oss-security] 20091103 CVE-2009-3547 kernel: fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125724568017045&w=2
[security-announce] 20100303 VMSA-2010-0004 ESX Service Console and vMA third party updates
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ad3960243e55320d74195fb85c975e0a8cc4466c
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc6
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530490
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11513
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11513
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7608
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7608
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9327
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9327
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