The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.
Dmitry Monakhov reported a race condition flaw the Linux ext4 filesystem that can expose stale data. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause an information leak. (CVE-2012-4508)
19 December 2012
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.
Dmitry Monakhov reported a race condition flaw the Linux ext4 filesystem that can expose stale data. An unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause an information leak. (CVE-2012-4508)
A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel’s handling of new hot-plugged memory. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service by crashing the system. (CVE-2012-5517)
An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel’s /dev/dvb device. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from the kernel’s stack memory. (CVE-2013-1928)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.
ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well.
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