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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2239-1

Posted Jun 6, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2239-1 - Pinkie Pie discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's futex subsystem. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or gain administrative privileges. A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel virtual machine's (kvm) validation of interrupt requests (irq). A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (host OS crash). An information leak was discovered in the netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2014-0155, CVE-2014-2568, CVE-2014-3122, CVE-2014-3153

SHA-256 | f6d854244ec1173e8de754f9b5576ff1b8318f1ad9b43e7ebffa38a9f1eff412

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