Home / vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1236-1
Posted on 21 October 2011
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Ubuntu Security Notice 1236-1 - It was discovered that the Auerswald usb driver incorrectly handled lengths of the USB string descriptors. A local attacker with physical access could insert a specially crafted USB device and gain root privileges. It was discovered that the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation incorrectly calculated lengths. If the net.sctp.addip_enable variable was turned on, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system. Various other issues were also addressed.
