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| Secunia ID | |
| CVE-ID | |
| Release Date |
18 Jan 2013 |
| Last Change |
04 Feb 2013 |
| Criticality | |
| Solution Status |
Vendor Patch |
| Where | |
| 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 kernel. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). For more information: |
| Solution |
Apply updated packages. -- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS -- |
| Original Advisory |
USN-1696-1: USN-1696-2: |