CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2005:420)

Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4. This is the first regular update. Updated 9 August 2005 The advisory text has been updated to show that this update also contained fixes for the security issues named...

CVE-2005-0937

Some futex functions in futex.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x perform getuser calls while holding the mmapsem semaphore, which could allow local users to cause a deadlock condition in dopagefault by triggering getuser faults while another thread is executing mmap or other functions...