Gentoo: GLSA-200407-17 High: Systemd DoS and Permission Issues

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200407-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Linux Kernel: Multiple DoS and permission vulnerabilities Date: July 22, 2004 Bugs: #56171, #56479 ID: 200407-16

Synopsis ======= Multiple permission vulnerabilities have been found in the Linux kernel, allowing an attacker to change the group IDs of files mounted on a remote filesystem (CAN-2004-0497), as well as an issue in 2.6 series kernels which allows /proc permissions to be bypassed.
A context sharing vulnerability in vserver-sources is also handled by this advisory as well as CAN-2004-0447, CAN-2004-0496 and CAN-2004-0565. Patched, or updated versions of these kernels have been released and details are included along with this advisory.
Background ========= The Linux kernel is responsible for managing the core aspects of a GNU/Linux system, providing an interface for core system...