Ubuntu 4.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-57-1)

Paul Starzetz discovered a race condition in the ELF library and a.out binary format loaders, which can be locally exploited in several different ways to gain root privileges. CAN-2004-1235 Liang Bin found a design flaw in the capability module. After this module was loaded on demand in a running...