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Title: PATCH-B8072901 - Security update for Linux kernel - SLES10 SP2/SLED10 SP2
Severity: <Unspecified>
Fixlet ID: 807290105
Fixlet Link: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=evC3KicgUY0~
Fixlet Link: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=wcQ8rYR8zss~

Fixlet Description: This is a respin of the previous kernel update, which got retracted due to an IDE-CDROM regression, where any IDE CDROM access would hang or crash the system. Only this problem was fixed additionally. This kernel update fixes the following security problems:   CVE-2008-1615: On x86_64 a denial of service attack could be used by local attackers to immediately panic / crash the machine. CVE-2008-1669: Fixed a SMP ordering problem in fcntl_setlk could potentially allow local attackers to execute code by timing file locking. CVE-2008-2372: Fixed a resource starvation problem in the handling of ZERO mmap pages. CVE-2008-1673: The asn1 implementation in (a) the Linux kernel, as used in the cifs and ip_nat_snmp_basic modules does not properly validate length values during decoding of ASN.1 BER data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via (1) a length greater than the working buffer, which can lead to an unspecified overflow; (2) an oid length of zero, which can lead to an off-by-one error; or (3) an indefinite length for a primitive encoding. CVE-2008-2812: Various tty / serial devices did not check functionpointers for NULL before calling them, leading to potential crashes or code execution. The devices affected are usually only accessible by the root user though. CVE-2008-2931: A missing permission check in mount changing was added which could have been used by local attackers to change the mountdirectory. Additionally a very large number of bugs was fixed. Details can be found in the RPM changelog of the included packages. OCFS2 has been upgraded to the 1.4.1 release:   Endian fixes Use slab caches for DLM objects Export DLM state info to debugfs Avoid ENOSPC in rare conditions when free inodes are reserved by other nodes Error handling fix in ocfs2_start_walk_page_trans() Cleanup lockres printing Allow merging of extents Fix to allow changing permissions of symlinks Merged local fixes upstream (no code change) Everyone using the Linux Kernel on x86 architecture should update. Please see patch page for more detailed information.