RHSA-2007:0940High

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Published
October 22, 2007
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (9)

CVE-2007-3105 →CVE-2007-3380 →CVE-2007-3513 →CVE-2007-3731 →CVE-2007-3848 →CVE-2007-3850 →CVE-2007-4133 →CVE-2007-4308 →CVE-2007-4574 →

📋 Description

CVE-2007-3105 — Bound check ordering issue in random driver CVE-2007-3380 — security flaw CVE-2007-3513 — Locally triggerable memory consumption in usblcd CVE-2007-3731 — NULL pointer dereference triggered by ptrace CVE-2007-3848 — Privilege escalation via PR_SET_PDEATHSIG CVE-2007-3850 — kernel LTC31426-4k page mapping support for userspace in 64k kernels CVE-2007-4133 — prio_tree unit kernel panic CVE-2007-4308 — kernel: Missing ioctl() permission checks in aacraid driver CVE-2007-4574 — EM64T local DoS

🎯 Affected products66

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-PAE-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-PAE-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-PAE-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-PAE-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-PAE-devel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-PAE-devel-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debuginfo-common-0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

🔗 References (12)