Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2008:224-1)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : The error-reporting functionality in 1 fs/ext2/dir.c, 2 fs/ext3/dir.c, and possibly 3 fs/ext4/dir.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.5 does not limit the number of printk console messages that report directory corruption, whic...

kernel: don't allow splice() to files opened with O_APPEND

The dosplicefrom function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 does not reject file descriptors that have the OAPPEND flag set, which allows local users to bypass append mode and make arbitrary changes to other locations in the file...