Secunia Security Advisory - Ubuntu has issued an update for kernel. This fixes two vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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