Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities (USN-137-1)

Alexander Nyberg discovered that ptrace insufficiently validated addresses on the amd64 platform so that it was possible to set an invalid segment base. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel. This does not affect the i386 and powerpc platforms in any way. CAN-2005-0756 Chris...

[Full-disclosure] [USN-137-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-137-1 June 08, 2005 linux-source-2.6.10, linux-source-2.6.8.1 vulnerabilities CAN-2005-0756, CAN-2005-1265 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubun...