[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 -...

CVE-2005-3276

CVE-2005-3276 affects the Linux 2.6 kernel: the sys_get_thread_area path in process.c may copy an uninitialized data structure to userspace, exposing kernel memory to a local user. Affected versions are 2.6 before 2.6.12.4 and 2.6.13. The impact is information disclosure of kernel data to untrust...