RHSA-2008:0089High

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
January 23, 2008
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (5)

CVE-2007-3104 →CVE-2007-5904 →CVE-2007-6206 →CVE-2007-6416 →CVE-2008-0001 →

📋 Description

CVE-2007-3104 — Null pointer to an inode in a dentry can cause an oops in sysfs_readdir CVE-2007-5904 — Buffer overflow in CIFS VFS CVE-2007-6206 — Issue with core dump owner CVE-2007-6416 — Security: vulnerability of copy_to_user in PAL emulation CVE-2008-0001 — kernel: filesystem corruption by unprivileged user via directory truncation

🎯 Affected products87

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-PAE-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-PAE-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-PAE-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-PAE-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-PAE-devel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-PAE-devel-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • +57 more not shown

✅ 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 (13)