Debian 3.1 DSA 1184-1 Critical: Kernel Denial Of Service Risks

Toshihiro Iwamoto discovered a memory leak in the handling of
direct I/O writes that allows local users to cause a denial of
service.

CVE-2005-4798

A buffer overflow in NFS readlink handling allows a malicious
remote server to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2006-1052

Stephen Smalley discovered a bug in the SELinux ptrace handling
that allows local users with ptrace permissions to change the
tracer SID to the SID of another process.

CVE-2006-1343

Pavel Kankovsky discovered an information leak in the getsockopt
system call which can be exploited by a local program to leak
potentially sensitive memory to userspace.

CVE-2006-1528

Douglas Gilbert reported a bug in the sg driver that allows local
users to cause a denial of service by performing direct I/O
transfers from the sg driver to memory mapped I/O space.

CVE-2006-1855

Mattia Belletti noticed that certain debugging code left in the
process management code cou...