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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2012-5375
Created:September 6, 2013 Updated:September 11, 2013
Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

A denial of service flaw was discovered in the Btrfs file system in the Linux kernel. A local user could cause a denial of service (prevent file creation) for a victim, by creating a file with a specific CRC32C hash value in a directory important to the victim.

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1944-1 2013-09-06
Ubuntu USN-1945-1 2013-09-06
Ubuntu USN-1946 2013-09-06
Ubuntu USN-1947-1 2013-09-06

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