CVE-2011-2525
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Statement
This flaw affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. It did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they have already backported the upstream commit 53b0f080 that addressed this flaw. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1065.html. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is now in Production 3 of the maintenance life-cycle, https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/, therefore the fix for this issue is not currently planned to be included in the future updates.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 4.9 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Complete |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) | RHSA-2011:1163 | 2011-08-16 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.6 server) | RHSA-2011:1163 | 2011-08-16 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) | RHSA-2011:1065 | 2011-07-21 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 | realtime-kernel | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kernel | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | kernel | Will not fix |
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