security flaw

Linux kernel 2.6.8 to 2.6.14-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel OOPS via a userspace process that issues a USB Request Block URB to a USB device and terminates before the URB is finished, which leads to a stale pointer reference...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2005:235)

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Linux 2.6 kernel have been discovered and corrected in this update : A stack-based buffer overflow in the sendmsg function call in versions prior to 2.6.13.1 allow local users to execute arbitrary code by calling sendmsg and modifying the message contents in anothe...