patch is obviously correct and should be applied even if there had been no security implications.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html
SWsoft Virtuozzo/OpenVZ Linux kernel team would like to note that CVE-2005-3044 is still not fully fixed in RHEL4 kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8 Please see the for details: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227978
for historical interest #227978 is private but the public version of that bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243252