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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):

kernel

CVE #(s):

CVE-2013-4205

Created:

September 27, 2013

Updated:

October 2, 2013

Description:

From the Ubuntu advisory:

A memory leak was discovered in the user namespace facility of the Linux kernel. A local user could cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via the CLONE_NEWUSER unshare call.

Alerts:

Ubuntu	USN-1974-1	2013-09-27
Ubuntu	USN-1971-1	2013-09-27

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