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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1228-1

Posted Oct 12, 2011

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1228-1 - Timo Warns discovered that the EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed. A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges. Dan Rosenberg discovered that the IPv4 diagnostic routines did not correctly validate certain requests. A local attacker could exploit this to consume CPU resources, leading to a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, local, root

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2011-1776, CVE-2011-2213, CVE-2011-2497, CVE-2011-2695, CVE-2011-2700, CVE-2011-2723, CVE-2011-2928, CVE-2011-3188, CVE-2011-3191

SHA-256 | 7a796facfbdbd4810efed8d348e53d29c7acf6784437937e622860655741e4f6

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