RHSA-2008:0585High

Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Published
August 26, 2008
Last Modified
June 27, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (9)

CVE-2007-5966 →CVE-2007-6282 →CVE-2007-6712 →CVE-2008-1615 →CVE-2008-2136 →CVE-2008-2148 →CVE-2008-2372 →CVE-2008-2729 →CVE-2008-2826 →

📋 Description

CVE-2007-5966 — kernel: non-root can trigger cpu_idle soft lockup CVE-2007-6282 — IPSec ESP kernel panics CVE-2007-6712 — kernel: infinite loop in highres timers (kernel hang) CVE-2008-1615 — kernel: ptrace: Unprivileged crash on x86_64 %cs corruption CVE-2008-2136 — kernel: sit memory leak CVE-2008-2148 — kernel: fix permission checking in sys_utimensat CVE-2008-2372 — kernel: Reinstate ZERO_PAGE optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP CVE-2008-2729 — kernel: [x86_64] The string instruction version didn't zero the output on exception. CVE-2008-2826 — kernel: sctp: sctp_getsockopt_local_addrs_old() potential overflow

🎯 Affected products29

  • MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.src as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-debug-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-debug-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-debug-devel-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-debug-devel-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-devel-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-devel-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-doc-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.noarch as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-trace-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-trace-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-trace-devel-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-trace-devel-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-vanilla-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-vanilla-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-vanilla-debuginfo-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.i686 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server
  • kernel-rt-vanilla-devel-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt.x86_64 as a component of MRG Realtime for RHEL 5 Server

✅ 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 (23)