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New Kernel Vulnerability Affects Ubuntu 11.04

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http://news.softpedia.com – Canonical announced on September 6th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is available for all users. There's a single kernel vulnerability (CVE-2012-3400), discovered by various developers, related to some errors found in Linux kernel's UDF file system (used to mount DVDs and CD-ROMs), which could allow an unprivileged local user to crash the system. As usual, you can click on it to see how it af... (read more) (General)

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