[Ksplice][Fedora-14-Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (FEDORA-2011-7551)
Tim Abbott
tabbott at ksplice.com
Sat Jun 11 21:12:43 PDT 2011
Synopsis: FEDORA-2011-7551 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2011-1770
Systems running Fedora 14 can now use Ksplice to patch against the latest
Fedora security update, FEDORA-2011-7551.
INSTALLING THE UPDATES
We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on Fedora 14 install these
updates. You can install these updates by running:
# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y
On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf,
these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to take
any additional action.
DESCRIPTION
* CVE-2011-1770: Remote denial of service in DCCP options parsing.
Dan Rosenberg reported an issue in the Datagram Congestion Control
Protocol (DCCP). Remote users can cause a denial of service or
potentially obtain access to sensitive kernel memory.
* Fix vm_pgoff wrapping during stack expansion.
The expand_downwards function in the Linux kernel did not properly handle
wrapping of vm_pgoff.
SUPPORT
Ksplice support is available at support at ksplice.com or +1 765-577-5423.
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