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Ubuntu 6.10/7.04/7.10 USN-578-1 High: Kernel Stack Mismanagement

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2008
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-577-1 February 12, 2008 linux-source-2.6.17/20/22 vulnerability CVE-2008-
Wojciech Purczynski discovered that the vmsplice system call did not properly perform verification of user-memory pointers

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security advisory critical local attack root access ubuntu kernel exploit memory overflow

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-577-1 February 12, 2008

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical local attack root access ubuntu kernel exploit memory overflow

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