[SECURITY] [DSA 1800-1] New Linux 2.6.26 packages fix several vulnerabilities

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DSA-1800-1 linux-2.6 user-mode-linux - several vulnerabilities

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CVE-2009-1338

The CVE-2009-1338 issue is confirmed in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.28, where the kill_something_info() function in kernel/signal.c did not respect PID namespaces when handling signals directed to PID -1. This allowed a local attacker to bypass namespace isolation and send signals to processes ...