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kernel: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2011-2534 CVE-2011-1747
Created:July 14, 2011 Updated:August 9, 2011
Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the netfilter code did not check certain strings copied from userspace. A local attacker with netfilter access could exploit this to read kernel memory or crash the system, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-2534)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that the AGP driver did not check the size of certain memory allocations. A local attacker with access to the video subsystem could exploit this to run the system out of memory, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1746, CVE-2011-1747)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1212-1 2011-09-21
Ubuntu USN-1204-1 2011-09-13
Ubuntu USN-1202-1 2011-09-13
Ubuntu USN-1187-1 2011-08-09
Ubuntu USN-1186-1 2011-08-09
Ubuntu USN-1170-1 2011-07-15
Ubuntu USN-1168-1 2011-07-15
Ubuntu USN-1167-1 2011-07-13
Ubuntu USN-1161-1 2011-07-13
Ubuntu USN-1159-1 2011-07-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0206-1 2012-02-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0236-1 2012-02-09

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