commit 407972755b44d0a18647dab1f1e62df80b6638d0 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Thu Jul 6 13:06:01 2006 -0700 Linux 2.6.16.24 commit 9e4e45f19bdd41b4091e5fe556f816f4046c7598 Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Thu Jul 6 13:05:42 2006 -0700 fix prctl privilege escalation and suid_dumpable (CVE-2006-2451) Based on a patch from Ernie Petrides During security research, Red Hat discovered a behavioral flaw in core dump handling. A local user could create a program that would cause a core file to be dumped into a directory they would not normally have permissions to write to. This could lead to a denial of service (disk consumption), or allow the local user to gain root privileges. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman