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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2379-1

Posted Oct 9, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2379-1 - Steven Vittitoe reported multiple stack buffer overflows in Linux kernel's magicmouse HID driver. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via specially crafted devices. Ben Hawkes reported some off by one errors for report descriptors in the Linux kernel's HID stack. A physically proximate attacker could exploit these flaws to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a specially crafted device. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, overflow, arbitrary, kernel

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2014-3181, CVE-2014-3184, CVE-2014-3185, CVE-2014-3186, CVE-2014-3631, CVE-2014-6410, CVE-2014-6416, CVE-2014-6417, CVE-2014-6418

SHA-256 | 216aab1ac8b1c5f5fa320e1812013bd6082c5c0d0b1cd7b24acb25ab21d04946

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