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Red Hat Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities

Last Update Date: 27 Jan 2026 Release Date: 11 Oct 2018 11509 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Operating Systems - Linux

TYPE: Linux

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Red Hat Kernel. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to trigger denial of service condition and elevation of privilege on the targeted system.

 

[Updated on 2026-01-27]

Updated Impact, Description and Related Links.

 

Note:

CVE-2018-14634 is being exploited in the wild. An unprivileged local user with access to SUID (or otherwise privileged) binary could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. Hence, the risk level remained as Medium Risk.


Impact

  • Denial of Service
  • Elevation of Privilege

System / Technologies affected

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS/Desktop 6

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

 

Update to fixed version

 

Please refer to the link below for detail:

www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/69562

 


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