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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1940-1

Posted Sep 6, 2013

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1940-1 - Vasily Kulikov discovered a flaw in the Linux Kernel's perf tool that allows for privilege escalation. A local user could exploit this flaw to run commands as root when using the perf tool. Michael S. Tsirkin discovered a flaw in how the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem allocates memory slots for the guest's address space. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain system privileges or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, kernel, local, root

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2013-1060, CVE-2013-1943, CVE-2013-2206, CVE-2013-4162, CVE-2013-1060, CVE-2013-1943, CVE-2013-2206, CVE-2013-4162

SHA-256 | 8c59646e4e53fb3534c048dfb45e7c1eed97a9ec7d2f86a5573f81bea49edf56

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