USN-178-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Oleg Nesterov discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the timer handling. When a non group-leader thread called exec to execute a different program while an itimer was pending, the timer expiry would signal the old group leader task, which did not exist any more. This caused a kerne...

MDKSA-2004:050 - Updated kernel packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandrakelinux Security Update Advisory Package name: kernel Advisory ID: MDKSA-2004:050 Date: May 21st, 2004 Affected versions: 10.0, 9.2 Problem Description: Brad Spender discovered an exploitable bug in the cpufreq code in the Linux 2.6 kernel...