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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1567-1

Posted Sep 14, 2012

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1567-1 - A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel passed the replacement session keyring to a child process. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (panic). Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers that support TSO (TCP segment offload). A local or peer user could exploit this flaw to to cause a denial of service. Jay Fenlason and Doug Ledford discovered a bug in the Linux kernel implementation of RDS sockets. A local unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to read privileged information from the kernel. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, local, tcp

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2012-2745, CVE-2012-3412, CVE-2012-3430, CVE-2012-3511, CVE-2012-2745, CVE-2012-3412, CVE-2012-3430, CVE-2012-3511

SHA-256 | a552c2e69546f1e16f0319e244f33fe12786e003870c90d2f57d54f57df37dd4

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