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kernel: several vulnerabilities

Package(s):linux-2.6 CVE #(s):CVE-2008-1294 CVE-2008-1375
Created:May 2, 2008 Updated:July 8, 2008
Description: From the Debian advisory: David Peer discovered that users could escape administrator imposed cpu time limitations (RLIMIT_CPU) by setting a limit of 0. (CVE-2008-1294) Alexander Viro discovered a race condition in the directory notification subsystem that allows local users to cause a Denial of Service (oops) and possibly result in an escalation of privileges. (CVE-2008-1375)
Alerts:
Debian DSA-1565-1 2008-05-01
rPath rPSA-2008-0157-1 2008-05-02
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0211-01 2008-05-07
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0237-01 2008-05-07
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0233-01 2008-05-07
CentOS CESA-2008:0211 2008-05-07
CentOS CESA-2008:0233 2008-05-09
CentOS CESA-2008:0237 2008-05-09
Fedora FEDORA-2008-3873 2008-05-14
Fedora FEDORA-2008-3949 2008-05-14
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:104 2008-05-20
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:105 2007-05-21
Ubuntu USN-614-1 2008-06-03
Ubuntu USN-618-1 2008-06-19
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:030 2008-06-20
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:031 2008-07-02
SuSE SUSE-SA:2008:032 2008-07-07

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