kernel security update

kernel 2.6.18-348.3.1 - utrace ensure archptrace can never race with SIGKILL Oleg Nesterov 912071 912072 CVE-2013-0871 - x86 msr: Add capabilities check Nikola Pajkovsky 908696 908697 CVE-2013-0268...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Linux kernel 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 does not properly handle an invalid LDT segment selector in %cs the xcs field during ptrace single-step operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL dereference and OOPS via certain code that makes ptrace PTRACESETREGS and...