Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:182)

A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : Stephane Eranian discovered an issue with permon2.0 where, under certain circumstances, the perfmonctl system call may not correctly manage the file descriptor reference count, resulting in the system possibly...

CVE-2006-4535

CVE-2006-4535 describes a local denial-of-service in the Linux kernel SCTP implementation where a socket with a specific SO_LINGER value can crash the kernel. Affected are kernel versions 2.6.17.10, 2.6.17.11 and 2.6.18-rc5 (and older kernels backported CVE-2006-3745 patches). Public sources (Red...