Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by local or remote attackers to cause a denial of service. These issues are caused by errors in Kernel. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3902

Affected Products

Fedora 8

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

6140d70dbb8468d1cdcd00e6fe3dfb46e7466771 kernel-doc-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.noarch.rpm
0c00785e3aeb0846caf75c1703c3686a5bea8368 kernel-headers-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i386.rpm
0bafc448fabdcf70e95f125f58be55f1fd0b362f kernel-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
10dee08f80eeb692f181f0f4f6cc0ed77b0d37df kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
755801f581478ea3e43107f39a3a539c069bb38b kernel-debug-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
ed0644137365e1a71e4060614aad4fbbb41f0afe kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
359adaba24af220de3450c1704d042ddbcf91213 kernel-PAE-debug-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
608ea8cf11596384aec931b2af627fbfa9b74784 kernel-debug-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
910f688de9fdfeb8b23671d2839a6806b8257f29 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
e268e11f6599bad80fa5e4d6203eef5de8c527b0 kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
a77c162840b45ca352b74eda15784793225b2a58 kernel-PAE-debug-debuginfo-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
ddda299e3b32d79824e86e7ca188514645fdfd28 kernel-PAE-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
dcec0463a12213880684a936b29e01e377c1abe8 kernel-PAE-debug-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
b2e9225b736154a133a1b1516d96b9a0248daafb kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
f598ffaef0cfe9e7a6edc6288af7fcc7444c9de4 kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i686.rpm
ad0fa3203b087e454dac566541d8cb6d119d776e kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc64.rpm
7fe1c423323a36a932bc6cd2f3f0b83f8d11d362 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc64.rpm
b7b09c8a89b8f6d328a823c5f31710b4ff277f1c kernel-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc64.rpm
4e23ec9c1510d5349d3420157267631e6fb471bb kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc64.rpm
a03f8077565b7ed512a62d2ea683b378a1ff6963 kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc64.rpm
505601dd6062c0a58acf521efe55a57f5cc897d6 kernel-headers-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc64.rpm
5da6a91b59e9be1225aad9e6446da3ffb91e4a8d kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc64.rpm
3f333ef1e6b78afadfdd88e8c37b6ea5854568b6 kernel-kdump-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc64.rpm
cf2f4ab64fe3bb69271e13039940df8f3c3ec0fd kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i586.rpm
014dfdec0df418bbeb5931bffead3475a4ac3644 kernel-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i586.rpm
7e1d2aa54e9bfbb45e5c4766601530caf5f5bd21 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i586.rpm
d9331c4820bcff69327144d6ec580878c7435ffe kernel-debuginfo-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.i586.rpm
a32535e4788ed493608a779b6a2d7d82ae9e594d kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64.rpm
476affdcb90c27a3e15e9e73f29d6390aa5b9fa4 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64.rpm
a10089e358e3c4ec5cd739a56abf31705feaf9fb kernel-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64.rpm
715ad01e8944c7d048c95bf7ce849d77c8e6b3cd kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64.rpm
416b9918778523233257ebe22d9f43c18d5a0c04 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64.rpm
42f8db490ab4cdf1db69acec3ca7b426b0d5c027 kernel-debug-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64.rpm
65ea18df433d1ce29cff7fffb4b1e6ccf85fde3f kernel-headers-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64.rpm
3acc764e85488b593084928ecddb3ed6e120c32e kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.x86_64.rpm
72009a1c1d40c454e2b4562472a5fc1228f2cc2f kernel-smp-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc.rpm
9e3f8ef27264a487c00027ca6e7a8fdd163fa63c kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc.rpm
eb37c3cccf3c2eed5c622a922801d0e8d7c66f2b kernel-headers-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc.rpm
0c59150de3e2be3bb598e4d715e07911837b42cb kernel-devel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc.rpm
acbc475a1f2e258338315586865c73a55b6595e1 kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc.rpm
8ce50bc976808dccc3a1228208805da9e07c673d kernel-debuginfo-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc.rpm
bd2e13eea7f708c59c84733ebb91ee0b19caccf5 kernel-smp-debuginfo-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc.rpm
8172dae20d38f1210ad18fea57ebdbb17d7dc0df kernel-smp-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.ppc.rpm
917ef103b0dfbefeb11ed1b2b5461abdc7c2f32a kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4081
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-December/msg00032.html

ChangeLog

2007-12-04 : Initial release

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