USN-244-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Doug Chapman discovered a flaw in the reference counting in the sysmqopen function. By calling this function in a special way, a local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel crash. CVE-2005-3356 Karl Janmar discovered that the /proc file system module used signed data types in a wrong way....

[Full-disclosure] [USN-244-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-244-1 January 18, 2006 linux-source-2.6.8.1/-2.6.10/-2.6.12 vulnerabilities CVE-2005-3356, CVE-2005-4605, CVE-2005-4618, CVE-2005-4639, CVE-2006-0095, CVE-2006-0096...