Candidate: CVE-2004-0228
References: 
 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000852
 http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-April/msg00010.html
 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200407-02.xml
 http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:050
 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_10_kernel.html
 http://secunia.com/advisories/11429
 http://secunia.com/advisories/11464
 http://secunia.com/advisories/11486
 http://secunia.com/advisories/11491
 http://secunia.com/advisories/11683
 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/15951
Description: 
 Integer signedness error in the cpufreq proc handler (cpufreq_procctl) in 
 Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to gain privileges.
Notes: 
 jmm> 2.4 does not have cpufreq
 jmm> In 2.6 the affected code has changed to drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_userspace.c
 jmm> I've verified that the isolated patch from 
 jmm> http://www.ultramonkey.org/bugs/cve-patch/CAN-2004-0228.patch
 jmm> is included in 2.6.8
Bugs: 
upstream:
linux-2.6: N/A
2.6.8-sarge-security: N/A
2.4.27-sarge-security: N/A
2.4.19-woody-security: N/A
2.4.18-woody-security: N/A
2.4.17-woody-security: N/A
2.4.16-woody-security: N/A
2.4.17-woody-security-hppa: N/A 
2.4.17-woody-security-ia64: N/A