Debian DSA-1070-1 : kernel-source-2.4.19 - several vulnerabilities

Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2004-0427 A local denial of service vulnerability i...

CVE-2004-0427: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The dofork function in Linux 2.4.x before 2.4.26, and 2.6.x before 2.6.6, does not properly decrement the mmcount counter when an error occurs after the mmstruct for a child process has been activated, which triggers a memory leak that allows local users to cause a denial of service memory...