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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71005
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-1275-1 (linux-image-3.0.0-13-generic)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to linux-image-3.0.0-13-generic
announced via advisory USN-1275-1.

Details:

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access
restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain
information, leading to a loss of privacy.

Solution:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 11.10:
linux-image-3.0.0-13-generic 3.0.0-13.22
linux-image-3.0.0-13-generic-pae 3.0.0-13.22
linux-image-3.0.0-13-omap 3.0.0-13.22
linux-image-3.0.0-13-powerpc 3.0.0-13.22
linux-image-3.0.0-13-powerpc-smp 3.0.0-13.22
linux-image-3.0.0-13-powerpc64-smp 3.0.0-13.22
linux-image-3.0.0-13-server 3.0.0-13.22
linux-image-3.0.0-13-virtual 3.0.0-13.22

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-1275-1

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-2494
48898
http://secunia.com/advisories/48898
SUSE-SU-2012:0554
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html
[oss-security] 20110627 Re: CVE request: kernel: taskstats/procfs io infoleak
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/1
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716842
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
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