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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1380-1

Posted Feb 29, 2012

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1380-1 - The linux kernel did not properly account for PTE pages when deciding which task to kill in out of memory conditions. A local, unprivileged could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service. A flaw was discovered in the TOMOYO LSM's handling of mount system calls. An unprivileged user could oops the system causing a denial of service. A bug was discovered in the Linux kernel's calculation of OOM (Out of memory) scores, that would result in the wrong process being killed. A user could use this to kill the process with the highest OOM score, even if that process belongs to another user or the system. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2011-2498, CVE-2011-2518, CVE-2011-4097, CVE-2012-0207, CVE-2011-2498, CVE-2011-2518, CVE-2011-4097, CVE-2012-0207

SHA-256 | 75b2e946d5ac4bde2cd9ccb2f923e5ac56c71eccf01382aa1830ca8d92bf01c6

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