USN-1410-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerability
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
05/17/2012
07/25/2018
05/06/2013
08/04/2020
Description
The I/O implementation for block devices in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 does not properly handle the CLONE_IO feature, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (I/O instability) by starting multiple processes that share an I/O context.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-344-ec2
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