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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1736-1

Posted on 22 February 2013
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1736-1
February 22, 2013

linux vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software Description:
- linux: Linux kernel

Details:

Suleiman Souhlal, Salman Qazi, Aaron Durbin and Michael Davidson discovered
a race condition in the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall. An unprivileged
local attacker could exploit this flaw to run programs as an administrator.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
linux-image-2.6.32-45-386 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-generic 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-generic-pae 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-ia64 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-lpia 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-powerpc 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-powerpc-smp 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-powerpc64-smp 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-preempt 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-server 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-sparc64 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-sparc64-smp 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-versatile 2.6.32-45.104
linux-image-2.6.32-45-virtual 2.6.32-45.104

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1736-1
CVE-2013-0871

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/2.6.32-45.104

 

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