Bug#297203: kernel-source-2.6.8: race which could allow for privilege escalation on Radeon

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

Package: kernel-source-2.6.8
Version: 2.6.8-13
Severity: critical
Tags: security
Justification: root security hole

There is a race condition in the radeon driver which has been fixed
in 2.6.11-rc4. This is part of BID-12555:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12555

The same code is already in 2.6.8

The corresponding changeset is at:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%4042088d17CO1mOAfgW4R46WRTm9gkwA?nav=index.html|ChangeSet@-3w


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)