CVE-2011-2534

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1186-1

Posted Aug 9, 2011

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1186-1 - Dan Rosenberg discovered that IPC structures were not correctly initialized on 64bit systems. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. Steve Chen discovered that setsockopt did not correctly check MSS values. A local attacker could make a specially crafted socket call to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Vladymyr Denysov discovered that Xen virtual CD-ROM devices were not handled correctly. A local attacker in a guest could make crafted blkback requests that would crash the host, leading to a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2010-4073, CVE-2010-4165, CVE-2010-4238, CVE-2010-4249, CVE-2010-4649, CVE-2011-0711, CVE-2011-1010, CVE-2011-1044, CVE-2011-1090, CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-1173, CVE-2011-2484, CVE-2011-2534

SHA-256 | c3a47a1e53eb2444ce4455bf4ddc8ae62e5c824fec3c47e3051068cd376a1811

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