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USN-1775-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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USN-1775-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/28/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Buffer overflow in the VFAT filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a VFAT write operation on a filesystem with the utf8 mount option, which is not properly handled during UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-386
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-generic-pae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-ia64
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-lpia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-powerpc
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-powerpc-smp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-powerpc64-smp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-preempt
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-server
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-sparc64
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-sparc64-smp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-versatile
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-2-6-32-46-virtual

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