RHSA-2014:1872-1: Important: kernel security and bug fix update

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the
References section.
CVE-2014-5077

RHSA-2014:1870-1: Important: libXfont security update

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Updated libXfont packages that fix three security issues are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.
CVE-2014-0209, CVE-2014-0210, CVE-2014-0211

CVE-2014-7911: Android <5.0 Privilege Escalation using ObjectInputStream

Posted by Jann Horn on Nov 19

In Android <5.0, java.io.ObjectInputStream did not check whether the Object that
is being deserialized is actually serializable. That issue was fixed in Android
5.0 with this commit:
<https://android.googlesource.com/platform/libcore/+/738c833d38d41f8f76eb7e77ab39add82b1ae1e2>

This means that when ObjectInputStream is used on untrusted inputs, an attacker
can cause an instance of any class with a non-private parameterless constructor
to…