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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1942-1

Posted Sep 6, 2013

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1942-1 - Chanam Park reported a Null pointer flaw in the Linux kernel's Ceph client. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). 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. Jonathan Salwan discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's cdrom driver. A local user can exploit this leak to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory if the CD-ROM drive is malfunctioning. Various other issues were also addressed.

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

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2013-1059, CVE-2013-1060, CVE-2013-2164, CVE-2013-2232, CVE-2013-2234, CVE-2013-2851, CVE-2013-4162, CVE-2013-4163, CVE-2013-1059, CVE-2013-1060, CVE-2013-2164, CVE-2013-2232, CVE-2013-2234, CVE-2013-2851, CVE-2013-4162, CVE-2013-4163

SHA-256 | 663792b692690dc74ab6966fa33d32c2ea17678527fd462774dbc61a68eda2c2

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