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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: USN-988-1 Critical: Kernel Memory Management Flaw

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Calendar Grey September 17, 2010
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
==========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-988-1 September
Ben Hawkes discovered that the Linux kernel did not correctly validatememory ranges on 64bit kernels when allocating memory on behalf of 32bitsystem calls

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security advisory Ubuntu critical severity root access memory management kernel issue

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linux, linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities

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security advisory Ubuntu critical severity root access memory management kernel issue

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