local privilege escalation

Please Install the Updated Packages.

The openSUSE 11.2 and 11.3 kernels were updated to fix 2 critical security issues and some small bugs. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2010-3904: A local privilege escalation in RDS sockets allowed local attackers to gain root privileges. We thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this problem. CVE-2010-2963: A problem in the compat ioctl handling in video4linux allowed local attackers with a video device plugged in to gain root privileges on x86_64 systems. We thank Kees Cook for reporting this problem.

kernel on openSUSE 11.2

• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2010_53_kernel.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25