Five Kernel Vulnerabilities Fixed in RHEL 5

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 1, 2011

[ Thanks to An
Anonymous Reader
for this link. ]

“Red Hat released last evening, November 29th, a new kernel
update for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Desktop and Server
operating systems, fixing several more security vulnerabilities
discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various hackers.

“These are the kernel vulnerabilities found recently in the
Linux kernel packages: CVE-2011-1162, CVE-2011-1898, CVE-2011-2203,
CVE-2011-2494, CVE-2011-3363, and CVE-2011-4110.”


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Web Webster

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