SUSE has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to potentially gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA48645

1) An error within the pid_namespace handling can be exploited to leak pid_namespace slabs and consume CPU resources via e.g. vsftpd.

Solution
Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Vadim Ponomarev within a Novell bug report.

Original Advisory
SUSE-SU-2012:0689-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00001.html

Novell Bug#757783:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757783

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