[kernel-sec-discuss] r2170 - dsa-texts

[Micah Anderson]

Author: micah
Date: 2011-01-26 02:57:23 +0000 (Wed, 26 Jan 2011)
New Revision: 2170

Modified:
   dsa-texts/2.6.26-26lenny2
Log:
some fixups

Modified: dsa-texts/2.6.26-26lenny2
===================================================================
--- dsa-texts/2.6.26-26lenny2	2011-01-26 02:51:36 UTC (rev 2169)
+++ dsa-texts/2.6.26-26lenny2	2011-01-26 02:57:23 UTC (rev 2170)
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
 CVE-2010-4162
 
-    Dan Rosenberg discovered an overflow issue in the block I/O subsystem. that
+    Dan Rosenberg discovered an overflow issue in the block I/O subsystem that
     allows local users to map large numbers of pages, resulting in a denial
     of service due to invocation of the out of memory killer.
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 CVE-2010-4243
 
     Brad Spengler reported a denial-of-service issue in the kernel memory
-    accounting system. By  passing large argv/envp values to exec, local users
+    accounting system. By passing large argv/envp values to exec, local users
     can cause the out of memory killer to kill processes owned by other
     users.
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 
     Nelson Elhage reported an issue in Linux oops handling. Local users may
     be able to obtain elevated privileges if they are able to trigger an
-    oops with a process's fs set to KERNEL_DS.
+    oops with a process' fs set to KERNEL_DS.
 
 CVE-2010-4342
 
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
     Tavis Ormandy discovered an issue in the install_special_mapping routine
     which allows local users to bypass the mmap_min_addr security restriction.
     Combined with an otherwise low severity local denial of service
-    vulnerability (NULL pointer derefernce), a local user could obtain
+    vulnerability (NULL pointer dereference), a local user could obtain
     elevated privileges.
 
 CVE-2010-4526
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 
 CVE-2010-4649
 
-    Dan Carpenter reported an issue in the uverb handline of the
+    Dan Carpenter reported an issue in the uverb handling of the
     InfiniBand subsystem. A potential buffer overflow may allow local
     users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by passing
     in a large cmd.ne value.