From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Oct 22 2008 - 17:40:04 CDT

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TITLE:
SUSE update for kernel

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32370

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32370/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation, DoS

WHERE:
From local network

OPERATING SYSTEM:
openSUSE 10.3
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/16124/

DESCRIPTION:
SUSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive
information, and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people
to cause a DoS.

For more information:
SA30580
SA31048
SA31366
SA31509

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

x86 Platform:

openSUSE 10.3:

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-bigsmp-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-debug-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-default-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-source-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-syms-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-xen-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/i586/kernel-xenpae-2.6.22.19-0.1.i586.rpm

Power PC Platform:

openSUSE 10.3:

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/ppc/kernel-default-2.6.22.19-0.1.ppc.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/ppc/kernel-kdump-2.6.22.19-0.1.ppc.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/ppc/kernel-ppc64-2.6.22.19-0.1.ppc.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/ppc/kernel-source-2.6.22.19-0.1.ppc.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/ppc/kernel-syms-2.6.22.19-0.1.ppc.rpm

x86-64 Platform:

openSUSE 10.3:

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/kernel-debug-2.6.22.19-0.1.x86_64.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/kernel-default-2.6.22.19-0.1.x86_64.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/kernel-source-2.6.22.19-0.1.x86_64.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/kernel-syms-2.6.22.19-0.1.x86_64.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/x86_64/kernel-xen-2.6.22.19-0.1.x86_64.rpm

Sources:

openSUSE 10.3:

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-bigsmp-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-debug-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-default-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-kdump-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-ppc64-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-source-2.6.22.19-0.1.src.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-syms-2.6.22.19-0.1.src.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-xen-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/update/10.3/rpm/src/kernel-xenpae-2.6.22.19-0.1.nosrc.rpm

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
SUSE-SA:2008:052:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00008.html

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA30580:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30580/

SA31048:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31048/

SA31366:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31366/

SA31509:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31509/

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