Red Hat Security Advisory 2012-0150-03 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issue: A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Event Poll subsystem handled large, nested epoll structures. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.
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