| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic
announced via advisory USN-1193-1.
Details:
Timo Warns discovered that the GUID partition parsing routines did not
correctly validate certain structures. A local attacker with physical
access could plug in a specially crafted block device to crash the system,
leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1577)
Phil Oester discovered that the network bonding system did not correctly
handle large queues. On some systems, a remote attacker could send
specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of
service. (CVE-2011-1581)
Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats listeners were not correctly
handled. A local attacker could expoit this to exhaust memory and CPU
resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2484)
Sami Liedes discovered that ext4 did not correctly handle missing root
inodes. A local attacker could trigger the mount of a specially crafted
filesystem to cause the system to crash, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2493)
Solution:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 11.04:
linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic 2.6.38-11.48
linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic-pae 2.6.38-11.48
linux-image-2.6.38-11-omap 2.6.38-11.48
linux-image-2.6.38-11-powerpc 2.6.38-11.48
linux-image-2.6.38-11-powerpc-smp 2.6.38-11.48
linux-image-2.6.38-11-powerpc64-smp 2.6.38-11.48
linux-image-2.6.38-11-server 2.6.38-11.48
linux-image-2.6.38-11-versatile 2.6.38-11.48
linux-image-2.6.38-11-virtual 2.6.38-11.48
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-1193-1
CVSS Score:
4.9
CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:NR/C:N/I:N/A:C
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