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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1720-1

Posted Feb 13, 2013

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1720-1 - It was discovered that hypervkvpd, which is distributed in the Linux kernel, was not correctly validating the origin on Netlink messages. An untrusted local user can cause a denial of service of Linux guests in Hyper-V virtualization environments. Dmitry Monakhov reported a race condition flaw the Linux ext4 filesystem that can expose stale data. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause an information leak. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2012-2669, CVE-2012-4508, CVE-2012-5532, CVE-2013-0190, CVE-2012-2669, CVE-2012-4508, CVE-2012-5532, CVE-2013-0190

SHA-256 | e44f09d2e5a972aa796e430101537128cafec69256c99de889a29ded2edd3bcf

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