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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1704-1

Posted Jan 23, 2013

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1704-1 - Brad Spengler discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to read kernel stack memory. Jon Howell reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM (Kernel-based virtual machine) subsystem's handling of the XSAVE feature. On hosts, using qemu userspace, without the XSAVE feature an unprivileged local attacker could exploit this flaw to crash the system. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2012-0957, CVE-2012-4461, CVE-2012-4508, CVE-2012-4530, CVE-2012-4565, CVE-2012-5517, CVE-2012-5532, CVE-2012-0957, CVE-2012-4461, CVE-2012-4508, CVE-2012-4530, CVE-2012-4565, CVE-2012-5517, CVE-2012-5532

SHA-256 | cee34c70ba2a3639f0d2c6c944ab8c33eaab079317385ea3e05356964547c138

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