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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1340-1

Posted Jan 24, 2012

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1340-1 - Clement Lecigne discovered a bug in the HFS filesystem. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel oops. A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain root privileges. A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel handles user-defined key types. An unprivileged local user could exploit this to crash the system. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, local, root

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2011-2203, CVE-2011-4077, CVE-2011-4110, CVE-2011-4132, CVE-2011-4330, CVE-2012-0044

SHA-256 | 53b7beba816a72a2e2ea1ad4ce906bde15a2f14e658ba30e18a94a7b9bc365dc

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