Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-289 - Some vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel. These range from buffer overflows to denial of service vulnerabilities.
9babe556d8283b253ed966788d3377e9f40ffcfb77f3fdc39643b95c68956950Debian Security Advisory 1845-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service, or privilege escalation.
ddce2a1f54158deb8c3002cf6fd5f7f63349871281f4dfeaa4907542189e2839Debian Security Advisory 1844-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation.
3e4337776a6b1affbc02de5ed8349b5fee27fdcee9cda24ab22b8932ebc72584Ubuntu Security Notice USN-807-1 - Michael Tokarev discovered that the RTL8169 network driver did not correctly validate buffer sizes. A remote attacker on the local network could send specially traffic traffic that would crash the system or potentially grant elevated privileges. Julien Tinnes and Tavis Ormandy discovered that when executing setuid processes the kernel did not clear certain personality flags. A local attacker could exploit this to map the NULL memory page, causing other vulnerabilities to become exploitable. Ubuntu 6.06 was not affected. Matt T. Yourst discovered that KVM did not correctly validate the page table root. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Ubuntu 6.06 was not affected. Ramon de Carvalho Valle discovered that eCryptfs did not correctly validate certain buffer sizes. A local attacker could create specially crafted eCryptfs files to crash the system or gain elevated privileges. Ubuntu 6.06 was not affected.
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