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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):linux CVE #(s):CVE-2012-5532
Created:January 18, 2013 Updated:May 13, 2013
Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

Florian Weimer discovered that hypervkvpd, which is distributed in the Linux kernel, was not correctly validating source addresses of netlink packets. An untrusted local user can cause a denial of service by causing hypervkvpd to exit. (CVE-2012-5532)

Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-1696-1 2013-01-17
Ubuntu USN-1699-1 2013-01-17
Ubuntu USN-1698-1 2013-01-17
Ubuntu USN-1700-1 2013-01-17
Ubuntu USN-1704-1 2013-01-22
Ubuntu USN-1699-2 2013-02-01
Ubuntu USN-1700-2 2013-02-01
Ubuntu USN-1696-2 2013-02-01
Ubuntu USN-1698-2 2013-02-01
Ubuntu USN-1704-2 2013-02-01
Ubuntu USN-1720-1 2013-02-12
Ubuntu USN-1726-1 2013-02-14
Red Hat RHSA-2013:0807-01 2013-05-09
Oracle ELSA-2013-0807 2013-05-09
Scientific Linux SL-hype-20130509 2013-05-09
CentOS CESA-2013:0807 2013-05-10

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