RHSA-2009:1243High

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 kernel security and bug fix update

Published
September 2, 2009
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (6)

CVE-2009-0745 →CVE-2009-0746 →CVE-2009-0747 →CVE-2009-0748 →CVE-2009-2847 →CVE-2009-2848 →

📋 Description

CVE-2009-0745 — kernel: ext4: ext4_group_add() missing initialisation issue CVE-2009-0746 — kernel: ext4: make_indexed_dir() missing validation CVE-2009-0747 — kernel: ext4: ext4_isize() denial of service CVE-2009-0748 — kernel: ext4: ext4_fill_super() missing validation issue CVE-2009-2847 — kernel: information leak in sigaltstack CVE-2009-2848 — kernel: execve: must clear current->clear_child_tid

🎯 Affected products90

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-164.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-164.el5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-164.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-164.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-164.el5.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-0:2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-PAE-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-PAE-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-PAE-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-PAE-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-PAE-devel-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-PAE-devel-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-164.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-164.el5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-164.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-0:2.6.18-164.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-164.el5.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-164.el5.ia64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-164.el5.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-164.el5.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
  • kernel-debug-debuginfo-0:2.6.18-164.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/docs/DOC-11259

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