Author: JT Smith
Posted at LWN.net: “Yet another ptrace race condition has been found which allows local
attackers to get access to the root account.
attackers to get access to the root account.
   Also, a local attacker can use a recursive symlink structure setup
   to effectively cause all filesystem actions to hang for an infinite
   amount of time.
   The IPTABLES implementation in the 2.4 kernel also had a problem in
   the RELATED connection handling of the ip_conntrack_module which is
   fixed by the supplied packages.”
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