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Title : Linux Kernel Multiple Denial of Service and Privilege Escalation Issues
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0035
CVE ID : CVE-2005-3358 - CVE-2005-4618 - CVE-2005-4635 - CVE-2005-4639
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-01-04

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Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in Linux Kernel, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause a denial of service and potentially obtain elevated privileges [...]

Solution

Upgrade to Linux Kernel version 2.6.15 :
http://www.kernel.org/

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Doug Chapman, Perceval Anichini and Yi Yang

ChangeLog

2006-01-04 : Initial release

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