CVE-2005-2801

Synopsis Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2 Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing supportand maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 This is thesecond regular updateThis update has bee ...

Oleg Nesterov discovered a local Denial of Service vulnerability in the timer handling When a non group-leader thread called exec() to execute a different program while an itimer was pending, the timer expiry would signal the old group leader task, which did not exist any more This caused a kernel panic This vulnerability only affects Ubuntu 50 ...

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-2005-0756 Alexander Nyberg discovered that the ptrace() system call does not properly verify addre ...

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-2004-2302 A race condition in the sysfs filesystem allows local users to read kernel memory and ca ...