Debian 4.0 DSA-1575-1 Critical Denial Of Service In Linux Kernel

Alexander Viro discovered a race condition in the fcntl code that
may permit local users on multi-processor systems to execute parallel
code paths that are otherwise prohibited and gain re-ordered access
to the descriptor table.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version
2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch4.

For the unstable distribution(sid), this problem has been fixed in version
2.6.25-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your linux-2.6, fai-kernels, and
user-mode-linux packages.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

The following matrix lists additional source packages that were rebuilt for
compatability with or to take advantage of t...