From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jan 06 2004 - 10:50:40 CST

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TITLE:
Fedora update for kernel

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10555

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10555/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora Core 1

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued updated packages for the kernel. These fix two
vulnerabilities, which may disclose sensitive information to
malicious, local users or allow them to gain escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA10532
SA10533

SOLUTION:
Apply the following updated packages available at:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/

Updated packages:

c9a94fe6d6a3cffb2604a17bf42839e2
SRPMS/kernel-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.src.rpm
841d46869237a9acce1c5e667e13807e
i386/kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.i386.rpm
ad2e530db065ddc5cceef49ff825d606
i386/kernel-doc-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.i386.rpm
ed345bd737557d25437d8a06ff10c6ed
i386/kernel-BOOT-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.i386.rpm
bc4dab2573386726679014c6fa2eb059
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.i386.rpm
88bb242a1d86c54674c8be1b2a5d918e
i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.i586.rpm
e5f61174a8586eb7487453dae7ea1875
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.i586.rpm
ee7ac4ffefdfa5ceff18e10d9c5b776b
i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.i686.rpm
50a7aabcbb8642c878714e3c58a49dff
i386/kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.i686.rpm
fdd33ad20548d78295e59a3d3c7d1f5b
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.i686.rpm
8b6ee386df3bcb68dd1c149c91f677e5
i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.athlon.rpm
01af9cea1186fefc4e844c4d78cc7a06
i386/kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.athlon.rpm
01592b67d16d33f577c4de864f3799e5
i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2138.nptl.athlon.rpm

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-January/msg00000.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA10532:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10532/

SA10533:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10533/

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