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TITLE:
Red Hat update for kernel

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45328

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-07-22

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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes a weakness
and some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local
users and malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to cause
a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA40205
SA45193

1) An error within the instruction emulator of the Xen hypervisor on
SMP systems can be exploited to crash the host system.

Note: This vulnerability only affects systems with both an AMD x86
processor and the AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) extensions enabled.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.

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ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2011:1065-1:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1065.html

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