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Apple and Red Hat face up to flaws

Thursday, June 01 2006 @ 02:01 PM EDT
Contributed by: sde

Red Hat and Apple have warned users of serious security flaws, including bugs in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel and Apple's WebObjects Xcode plug-in.

Red Hat advised users to upgrade the kernel in all RHEL 4-based systems due to a number of security flaws, including 11 it listed as "important". Another five were listed as having a "moderate" impact.
The more serious bugs affect basic components such as the IPv6, bridge, ATM and NFS client implementations. A flaw in the bridge implementation, for instance, can allow a remote user to cause forwarding of spoofed packets, while the ATM problem could allow a local user to cause a denial of service attack.
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