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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS USN-1725-1 Moderate: Xen Stack Corruption Kernel Risk

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The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1725-2 outlines a critical flaw in the kernel that may result in instability and system failures in certain scenarios.
The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Summary

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Software Description:

- linux: Linux kernel

Details:

Andrew Cooper of Citrix reported a Xen stack corruption in the Linux

kernel. An unprivileged user in a 32bit PVOPS guest can cause the guest

kernel to crash, or operate erroneously.

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-386       2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-generic   2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-generic-pae  2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-ia64      2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-lpia      2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-powerpc   2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-powerpc-smp  2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-powerpc64-smp  2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-preempt   2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-server    2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-sparc64   2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-sparc64-smp  2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-versatile  2.6.32-45.103
  linux-image-2.6.32-45-virtual   2.6.32-45.103

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1725-1

CVE-2013-0190

February 14, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate ubuntu linux linux kernel kernel crash xen stack

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/2.6.32-45.103

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