Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1237-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2007:171)

Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : The Linux kernel did not properly save or restore EFLAGS during a context switch, or reset the flags when creating new threads, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service process crash CVE-2006-5755. The...

oops in compat_sys_mount() when data pointer is NULL

The compatsysmount function in fs/compat.c in Linux kernel 2.6.20 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and oops by mounting a smbfs file system in compatibility mode "mount -t smbfs"...