Home / vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1239-1
Posted on 26 October 2011
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Ubuntu Security Notice 1239-1 - Ryan Sweat discovered that the kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets. On some systems, a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Vasiliy Kulikov and Dan Rosenberg discovered that ecryptfs did not correctly check the origin of mount points. A local attacker could exploit this to trick the system into unmounting arbitrary mount points, leading to a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.
