Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in various SuSE products, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions, disclose sensitive information or cause a denial of service. These issues are caused by errors in Kernel. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1770 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-2063 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-2307 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-2430 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-2511

Affected Products

Open Enterprise Server
Novell Linux Desktop 9
Novell Linux POS 9
SUSE SLES 9
SLE SDK 10 SP1
SLE SDK 10 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP1 DEBUGINFO
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 DEBUGINFO
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
http://download.novell.com

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2715
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00003.html

ChangeLog

2008-10-03 : Initial release

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