Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : linux-source-2.6.8.1, linux-source-2.6.10 vulnerabilities (USN-169-1)

David Howells discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the key session joining function. Under certain user-triggerable conditions, a semaphore was not released properly, which caused processes which also attempted to join a key session to hang forever. This only affects Ubuntu 5.04...

[USN-169-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities

=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-169-1 August 19, 2005 linux-source-2.6.8.1, linux-source-2.6.10 vulnerabilities CAN-2005-2098, CAN-2005-2456, CAN-2005-2457, CAN-2005-2458, CAN-2005-2459, CAN-2005-2548, CAN-2005-2555...

USN-169-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

David Howells discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the key session joining function. Under certain user-triggerable conditions, a semaphore was not released properly, which caused processes which also attempted to join a key session to hang forever. This only affects Ubuntu 5.04...