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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2138-1

Posted Mar 7, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2138-1 - Mathy Vanhoef discovered an error in the the way the ath9k driver was handling the BSSID masking. A remote attacker could exploit this error to discover the original MAC address after a spoofing attack. Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the Linux Kernel's kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu function of the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) subsystem. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain privileges on the host machine. Andrew Honig reported a flaw in the apic_get_tmcct function of the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) subsystem if the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service or host OS system crash. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service, kernel, local, spoof

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2013-4579, CVE-2013-4587, CVE-2013-6367, CVE-2013-6368, CVE-2013-6382, CVE-2013-7263, CVE-2013-7264, CVE-2013-7265, CVE-2013-7266, CVE-2013-7267, CVE-2013-7268, CVE-2013-7269, CVE-2013-7270, CVE-2013-7271, CVE-2013-7281, CVE-2014-1438, CVE-2014-1446, CVE-2014-1874, CVE-2013-4579, CVE-2013-4587, CVE-2013-6367, CVE-2013-6368, CVE-2013-6382, CVE-2013-7263, CVE-2013-7264, CVE-2013-7265, CVE-2013-7266, CVE-2013-7267

SHA-256 | 91680cbbf5fdef2f8e07e5eabb29b6df8d014cbc0dc9ff61a243b2814aed15ba

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