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New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced the other day, in a security notice, that a new kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is now available, fixing four security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers. These are the kernel vulnerabilities found in the kernel packag...

15 February 2012
02:19 GMT

New Kernel Vulnerability Affects Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced last evening, January 23rd, in a security notice, that a new kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is now available, fixing one security vulnerability discovered in the Linux kernel packages by Jüri Aedla. This kernel vulnerability was found (CVE-2012-0056) beca...

24 January 2012
02:17 GMT

New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Affects Ubuntu 11.10 OMAP4

A Linux kernel security vulnerability was recently discovered in the Linux kernel packages, affecting the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Linux kernel for OMAP4.Nick Bowler discovered CVE-2011-4081, a Linux kernel vulnerability where error conditions were incorrectly handled by the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm...

7 December 2011
07:50 GMT

Kernel Vulnerability in Ubuntu 11.10. Upgrade Now.

A Linux kernel security vulnerability was recently discovered in the Linux kernel, affecting all the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system.Vasiliy Kulikov discovered CVE-2011-2494, a Linux kernel vulnerability that allows a local attacker to read various information on the system, leading to loss of privacy,...

22 November 2011
02:30 GMT

Linux Kernel Vulnerability Affects Ubuntu 11.10 OMAP4

A Linux kernel security vulnerability was discovered in the Linux kernel for OMAP4 packages, affecting the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system.Vasiliy Kulikov discovered CVE-2011-2494, a Linux kernel vulnerability that allows a local attacker to read various information on the system, leading to loss of pr...

15 November 2011
11:31 GMT

More Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

After yesterday's announcement, several more security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the Natty backport of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.These are the kernel vulnerabilities found recently in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2011-1020, CVE-2011-1078, CVE-2011-1079, CVE-2011-10...

10 November 2011
12:41 GMT

11 Kernel Vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Upgrade Now.

Several security vulnerability were discovered in the Linux kernel packages, affecting many distributions, including Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, among others.These are the kernel vulnerabilities found recently in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2011-1576, CVE-2011-1833, CVE-2011-2494, CVE-2011-2495, CVE-2011-2497, CVE-2011-2695...

9 November 2011
13:41 GMT

Newly Discovered Linux Kernel Vulnerability Affects All Versions Since 2001

Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tiennes, two security specialists from Google, reported last night (August 13th) that they had discovered a critical security vulnerability in all Linux kernels (2.4 and 2.6) since 2001, for all architectures. The CVE-2009-2692 vulnerability allows regular users to get root rights on the affe...

14 August 2009
08:55 GMT

Newly Discovered Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect All Ubuntu Users

On November 27th, the Ubuntu developers announced the availability of a major security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS, 7.10, 8.04 LTS and 8.10 (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). The update patches nine security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packag...

28 November 2008
05:20 GMT

Linux Kernel Regression in Ubuntu 8.10. Upgrade Now.

A regression was discovered last night, right after the launch of Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), in the Linux kernel packages. Do not be alarmed, as this is not a security flaw! It's actually a bug in 2.6.27 Linux kernel packages. What happened? Well, long story short, the order of options in the TCP head...

31 October 2008
03:38 GMT

Kernel Vulnerability in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS. Upgrade Now!

A security vulnerability was discovered yesterday, 25 August 2008, in the Linux kernel packages of the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS distributions (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). This kernel vulnerability could lead to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and/or loss of privacy. The security fl...

26 August 2008
02:29 GMT

Kernel Vulnerability in Ubuntu 8.04, 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS. Upgrade Now!

A security vulnerability was discovered yesterday in the Linux kernel packages of the Ubuntu 8.04, 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS distributions (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). This kernel vulnerability could lead to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and loss of privacy. The security flaw can be fixed if you u...

16 July 2008
02:11 GMT

Kernel Vulnerability in Ubuntu 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS. Upgrade Now!

A security vulnerability was discovered yesterday in the Linux kernel packages of the Ubuntu 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS distributions (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). This kernel vulnerability could allow a local attacker to access sensitive kernel memory, leading to a loss of privacy. The security flaw ...

20 June 2008
02:24 GMT

Kernel Vulnerability in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Upgrade Now!

A security vulnerability was discovered yesterday in the Linux kernel packages of the Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu 8.04 distributions. This kernel vulnerability could allow a local attacker to cause a system crash, leading to a DoS (Denial of Service). The security flaw can be fixed if you upgrade your syste...

4 June 2008
02:38 GMT

Linux Kernel Vulnerability: IPv6 Sockets Local DoS

A kernel vulnerability has been found today by Masayuki Nakagawa, which can be exploited by local attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) attack. This bug is due to an error in the "tcp_v6_syn_recv_soc()" a.k.a. net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c function where the IPv6 flow list (ipv6_fl_socklist) is shared with child socke...

23 March 2007
10:18 GMT


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