Bugzilla Bug 139668

Bump request -- 2.6.17.4 fixes a bug in core dumping that could give a local
user a privlage escalation.

From the changelogs:

commit 4f9619cdd90ac846fa0ca6e9e8a9d87a0d6b4f57
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date:   Thu Jul 6 13:02:28 2006 -0700

    Linux 2.6.17.4

commit 0af184bb9f80edfbb94de46cb52e9592e5a547b0
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date:   Thu Jul 6 13:02:05 2006 -0700

    fix prctl privilege escalation and suid_dumpable (CVE-2006-2451)

    Based on a patch from Ernie Petrides

    During security research, Red Hat discovered a behavioral flaw in core
    dump handling. A local user could create a program that would cause a
    core file to be dumped into a directory they would not normally have
    permissions to write to. This could lead to a denial of service (disk
    consumption), or allow the local user to gain root privileges.

    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 139475 ***