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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2115-1

Posted Feb 19, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2115-1 - Vasily Kulikov reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's implementation of ptrace. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. A flaw in the handling of memory regions of the kernel virtual machine (KVM) subsystem was discovered. A local user with the ability to assign a device could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory consumption). Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2013-2929, CVE-2013-4592, CVE-2013-6378, CVE-2013-6380, CVE-2013-2929, CVE-2013-4592, CVE-2013-6378, CVE-2013-6380

SHA-256 | 1a42767751d96e7993524072d8c9e8663893074694d888e64e1cdd957c5fca55

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