SUSE Security Announcement - Due to missing argument checking in the 32 bit compatibility system call handler in the 2.4 Linux Kernel on the AMD64 platform a local attacker can gain root access using a simple program. This is a 2.4 Kernel and AMD64 specific problem, other architectures and the 2.6 Kernel are not affected.
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