Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix a number of security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 32-bit architectures. This security advisory has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of th...

CVE-2006-6058

CVE-2006-6058 affects the Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.24 (including 2.6.18). Local users can cause a denial of service (hang) via a malformed minix file stream that triggers an infinite loop in minix_bmap. The issue may involve an integer overflow or signedness error. The documented fix is a ker...