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Ubuntu update for kernel


Secunia ID

SA49027

CVE-ID

CVE-2011-4086, CVE-2011-4347, CVE-2012-0045, CVE-2012-1090, CVE-2012-1097, CVE-2012-1146, CVE-2012-1179

Release Date

01 May 2012

Last Change

02 May 2012

Criticality

Less Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

Local system

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

Ubuntu has issued an update for the kernel. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users and malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA47431
SA47482
SA48404
SA48544

Solution

Apply updated packages.

-- Ubuntu 11.10 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.0.0-19.33

Original Advisory

USN-1431-1:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1431-1/