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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1281-1

Posted Nov 27, 2011

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 1281-1 - Andrea Righi discovered a race condition in the KSM memory merging support. If KSM was being used, a local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. It was discovered that an mmap() call with the MAP_PRIVATE flag on "/dev/zero" was incorrectly handled. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Vasily Averin discovered that the NFS Lock Manager (NLM) incorrectly handled unlock requests. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2011-2183, CVE-2011-2479, CVE-2011-2491, CVE-2011-2494, CVE-2011-2495, CVE-2011-2496, CVE-2011-2517, CVE-2011-2905, CVE-2011-2909, CVE-2011-3363

SHA-256 | 872fb0971665c7f419fc03b97528a458416b56407dc592de5dc20aa1368746fa

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