Debian DSA-1184-2 : kernel-source-2.6.8 - several vulnerabilities

This advisory covers the S/390 components of the recent security update for the Linux 2.6.8 kernel that were missing due to technical problems. For reference, please see the text of the original advisory. Several security related problems have been discovered in the Linux kernel which may lead to...

CVE-2006-2936: Undefined Security Weakness

The ftdisio driver usb/serial/ftdisio.c in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.17, and possibly later versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption by writing more data to the serial port than the hardware can handle, which causes the data to be queued...

Fedora Core 1 : kernel-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl (2004-251)

Paul Starzetz discovered flaws in the Linux kernel when handling file offset pointers. These consist of invalid conversions of 64 to 32-bit file offset pointers and possible race conditions. A local unprivileged user could make use of these flaws to access large portions of kernel memory. The...