There's a nasty memory leak fixed in FC1 which should have been backported to RHL9, as its user exploitable, and can be considered a local DoS. This was CAN-2004-0427 I'm fairly certain this hasn't been picked up yet, so patch below. Dave --- linux-2.4.20/kernel/fork.c~ 2004-06-17 11:49:24.767644168 +0100 +++ linux-2.4.20/kernel/fork.c 2004-06-17 11:49:57.011742320 +0100 @@ -971,6 +971,8 @@ exit_namespace(p); bad_fork_cleanup_mm: exit_mm(p); + if (p->active_mm) + mmdrop(p->active_mm); bad_fork_cleanup_signal: exit_signal(p); bad_fork_cleanup_sighand: -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
