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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS USN-1408-1 Critical Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey March 27, 2012
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An urgent security advisory for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has been released, highlighting a kernel vulnerability that poses a risk of unexpected system failures.
The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Summary

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Software Description:

- linux-fsl-imx51: Linux kernel for IMX51

Details:

Louis Rilling discovered a flaw in Linux kernel's clone command when

CLONE_IO is specified. An unprivileged local user could exploit this to

cause a denial of service.

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  linux-image-2.6.31-612-imx51    2.6.31-612.34

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have
been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and
reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If
you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as
well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you
manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic,
linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically
perform this as well.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1408-1

CVE-2012-0879

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March 27, 2012

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