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Ubuntu 974-1 Advisory: Critical Kernel Exploits Affecting Memory Management

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Calendar Grey August 19, 2010
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Severe flaws in the Linux kernel were discovered in Ubuntu, affecting resource allocation and resulting in potential remote attacks.
Gael Delalleu, Rafal Wojtczuk, and Brad Spengler discovered that the memory manager did not properly handle when applications grow stacks into adjacent memory regions

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security advisory privilege escalation memory management ubuntu kernel exploit DRM issue

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linux, linux-{ec2,fsl-imx51,mvl-dove,source-2.6.15,ti-omap} vulnerabilities

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security advisory privilege escalation memory management ubuntu kernel exploit DRM issue

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