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Debian update for linux-2.6


Secunia ID

SA49098

CVE-ID

CVE-2011-4086, CVE-2012-0879, CVE-2012-1601, CVE-2012-2123, CVE-2012-2133

Release Date

11 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

Debian has issued an update for linux-2.6. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information see vulnerability #3 in:
SA38594

Solution

Apply updated packages via the apt-get package manager.

Original Advisory

DSA-2469-1:
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2469