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<update status="stable" from="maint-coord@suse.de" type="security" version="111">
  <id>kernel</id>
  <title>Linux Kernel update</title>
  <release>openSUSE 11.0</release>
  <issued date="1216599861"/>
  <references>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400874" id="400874" title="bug number 400874" type="bugzilla"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=216857" id="216857" title="bug number 216857" type="bugzilla"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=404892" id="404892" title="bug number 404892" type="bugzilla"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400815" id="400815" title="bug number 400815" type="bugzilla"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408734" id="408734" title="bug number 408734" type="bugzilla"/>
  </references>
  <description>The openSUSE 11.0 kernel was updated to 2.6.25.11.

It fixes following security problems: CVE-2008-2812:
Various tty / serial devices did not check functionpointers
for NULL before calling them, leading to potential crashes
or code execution. The devices affected are usually only
accessible by the root user though.

CVE-2008-2750: The pppol2tp_recvmsg function in
drivers/net/pppol2tp.c in the Linux kernel allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel heap memory
corruption and system crash) and possibly have unspecified
other impact via a crafted PPPOL2TP packet that results in
a large value for a certain length variable.

No CVE yet: On x86_64 systems, a incorrect buffersize in
LDT handling might lead to local untrusted attackers
causing a crash of the machine or potentially execute code
with kernel privileges.

The update also has lots of other bugfixes that are listed
in the RPM changelog.
</description>
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</update>
