RHSA-2008:0211High

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
May 7, 2008
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (8)

CVE-2006-4814 →CVE-2007-5001 →CVE-2007-6151 →CVE-2007-6206 →CVE-2008-0007 →CVE-2008-1367 →CVE-2008-1375 →CVE-2008-1669 →

📋 Description

CVE-2006-4814 — kernel Race condition in mincore can cause "ps -ef" to hang CVE-2007-5001 — kernel asynchronous IO on a FIFO kernel panic CVE-2007-6151 — I4L: fix isdn_ioctl memory issue CVE-2007-6206 — Issue with core dump owner CVE-2008-0007 — kernel: insufficient range checks in fault handlers with mremap CVE-2008-1367 — Kernel doesn't clear DF for signal handlers CVE-2008-1375 — kernel: race condition in dnotify (local DoS, local roothole possible) CVE-2008-1669 — kernel: add rcu_read_lock() to fcheck() in both dnotify, locks.c and fix fcntl store/load race in locks.c

🎯 Affected products146

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.athlon as a component of Red Hat Desktop version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.athlon as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.athlon as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.athlon as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.i686 as a component of Red Hat Desktop version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.ia32e as a component of Red Hat Desktop version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.ia32e as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.ia32e as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.ia32e as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.ppc64iseries as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.ppc64pseries as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.src as a component of Red Hat Desktop version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Desktop version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3
  • kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3
  • +116 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 (12)