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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS USN-894-1 Critical: Kernel Flaws and Exploits

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Calendar Grey February 5, 2010
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Protect your infrastructure by promptly applying crucial updates for Ubuntu kernel flaws revealed on February 5, 2010, impacting various editions.
Amerigo Wang and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that the HFS and ext4filesystems did not correctly check certain disk structures

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security advisory remote exploit critical ubuntu system crash linux kernel

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linux, linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities

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security advisory remote exploit critical ubuntu system crash linux kernel

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