paul Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel: A vulnerability in Linux kernel caused by insecure allocation of user space memory when translating system call inputs to 64-bit. A stack pointer underflow can occur when using the compat_alloc_user_space method with an arbitrary length input. (CVE-2010-3081) To update your kernel, please follow the directions located at: http://www.mandriva.com/en/security/kernelupdate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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