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<update status="stable" from="maint-coord@suse.de" type="security" version="171">
  <id>kernel</id>
  <title>Linux Kernel update</title>
  <release>openSUSE 11.0</release>
  <issued date="1219415511"/>
  <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"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=394667" id="394667" title="bug number 394667" type="bugzilla"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=407689" id="407689" title="bug number 407689" type="bugzilla"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417505" id="417505" title="bug number 417505" type="bugzilla"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415607" id="415607" title="bug number 415607" type="bugzilla"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412823" id="412823" title="bug number 412823" type="bugzilla"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415690" id="415690" title="bug number 415690" type="bugzilla"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406637" id="406637" title="bug number 406637" type="bugzilla"/>
    <reference href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374099" id="374099" title="bug number 374099" type="bugzilla"/>
  </references>
  <description>The openSUSE 11.0 kernel was updated to 2.6.25.16.

It fixes various stability bugs and also security bugs.

CVE-2008-1673: Fixed the range checking in the ASN.1
decoder in NAT for SNMP and CIFS, which could have been
used by a remote attacker to crash the machine.

CVE-2008-3276: An integer overflow flaw was found in the
Linux kernel dccp_setsockopt_change() function. An attacker
may leverage this vulnerability to trigger a kernel panic
on a victim's machine remotely.

CVE-2008-3272: The snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info function in
sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c in the sound subsystem
does not verify that the device number is within the range
defined by max_synthdev before returning certain data to
the caller, which allows local users to obtain sensitive
information.

CVE-2008-3275: The (1) real_lookup and (2) __lookup_hash
functions in fs/namei.c in the vfs implementation do not
prevent creation of a child dentry for a deleted (aka
S_DEAD) directory, which allows local users to cause a
denial of service (&quot;overflow&quot; of the UBIFS orphan area) via
a series of attempted file creations within deleted
directories.

Also lots of bugs were fixed.
</description>
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</update>
