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kernel: denial of service and possible privilege escalation

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2012-2383 CVE-2012-2384
Created:June 13, 2012 Updated:June 13, 2012
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Xi Wang discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's i915 graphics driver handling of cliprect on 32 bit systems. An unprivileged local attacker could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2012-2383)

Xi Wang discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's i915 graphics driver handling of buffer_count on 32 bit systems. An unprivileged local attacker could leverage this flaw to cause a denial of service or potentially gain root privileges. (CVE-2012-2384)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1471-1 2012-06-12
Ubuntu USN-1472-1 2012-06-12
Ubuntu USN-1473-1 2012-06-13
Ubuntu USN-1474-1 2012-06-13
Ubuntu USN-1476-1 2012-06-15
Oracle ELSA-2012-2022 2012-07-02
Oracle ELSA-2012-2022 2012-07-02
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1156-01 2012-08-14
CentOS CESA-2012:1156 2012-08-15
Scientific Linux SL-kern-20120815 2012-08-15
Oracle ELSA-2012-1156 2012-08-15
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1304-01 2012-09-25
CentOS CESA-2012:1304 2012-09-26
Scientific Linux SL-kern-20120926 2012-09-26
Oracle ELSA-2012-1304 2012-09-26

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