CVE-2008-4934

Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fixvarious bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4This update has been rated as having important security impact by the RedH ...

Synopsis Important: kernel security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5This update has been rated as having important security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team ...

It was discovered that the Xen hypervisor block driver did not correctly validate requests A user with root privileges in a guest OS could make a malicious IO request with a large number of blocks that would crash the host OS, leading to a denial of service This only affected Ubuntu 710 (CVE-2007-5498) ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-3527 Tavis Ormandy reported a local DoS and potential privilege escalation in the Virtual Dynamic Shared Objects (vDSO) ...