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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2113-1

Posted Feb 19, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2113-1 - Saran Neti reported a flaw in the ipv6 UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFI) in the Linux kernel. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (panic). 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

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

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2013-4563, CVE-2013-4579, CVE-2013-4587, CVE-2013-6367, CVE-2013-6368, CVE-2013-6376, CVE-2013-6382, CVE-2013-6432, 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-2013-4563, CVE-2013-4579, CVE-2013-4587, CVE-2013-6367, CVE-2013-6368, CVE-2013-6376, CVE-2013-6382, CVE-2013-6432

SHA-256 | b4b98d6e24984870cfe76d2ee9c3764dde0cfada14d2de91292681590d95ce1e

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