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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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