[SECURITY] [DSA 922-1] New Linux 2.6.8 packages fix several vulnerabilities

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 922-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze December 14th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

SUSE-SA:2005:067: kernel

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SUSE-SA:2005:067 kernel. This kernel update for SUSE Linux 10.0 contains fixes for XEN, various security fixes and bug fixes. This update includes a more recent snapshot of the upcoming XEN 3.0. Many bugs have been fixed. Stability for x8664 h...

CVE-2005-3271

CVE-2005-3271 affects the Linux kernel 2.6 series. Description and multiple advisories (SUSE, Debian, Mandriva) show exec() does not properly clear posix-timers in multi-threaded environments, causing a resource leak. This can enable a large number of local users to cause a denial of service by e...