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Linux Kernel (Quantal HWE) Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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http://news.softpedia.com – A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel, affecting the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, has been announced by Canonical. Several security issues have been fixed in the kernel. For example, a flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's uname system call. An unprivileged user could have exploited this flaw to read kernel stack memory. The security flaws can be fixed if you upgrade your system(s) to the linux-image-3.5.0-22-gen... (read more) (General)

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Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel (Quantal HWE), affecting the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, Canonical has unveiled.

According to Canonical, a few issues have been corrected in the Linux kernel.

For example, a flaw has been discovered with the xen_iret function in Linux kernel's Xen virtualization.

A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel affecting the Ubuntu 12.10 LTS (Quantal Quetzal) and Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) operating systems, was announced by Canonical.

This is the kernel vulnerability found in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2012-5517.

Several security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel (Quantal HWE), affecting the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, Canonical has unveiled.According to Canonical, a few issues have been corrected in the Linux kernel.For example, an information leak has been discovered in the Linux kernel's UDF file system implementation.

A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel affecting the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, was announced by Canonical.This is the kernel vulnerability found in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2012-3520. The system could be made to perform privileged actions as an administrator.

Canonical announced that a couple of vulnerabilities had been found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the OMAP4 kernel of the Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system.

The CVE-2012-0957 and CVE-2012-4565 Linux kernel vulnerabilities affected Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) OMAP4.

According to Canonical, two security issues were fixed in the kernel.

A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel affecting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Linx) operating system, was announced by Canonical.

This is the kernel vulnerability found in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2012-2745. The system could be made to crash under certain conditions. A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel passed the replacement session keyring to a child process.

A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel affecting the Ubuntu 12.10 LTS (Quantal Quetzal) operating system, was announced by Canonical.

This is the kernel vulnerability found in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2012-4461, CVE-2012-4530, and CVE-2012-5532.

A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel, affecting the Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system, has been announced by Canonical.

USN-1699-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, but it also introduced a regression. Due to an unrelated regression, inotify/fanotify stopped working after upgrading.

A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel EC2 (Amazon EC2) affecting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, was announced by Canonical. This is the kernel vulnerability found in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2012-4565. The system could have been made to run programs as an administrator.