Hello,
On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 07:13:37AM +0100, Andreas Olsson wrote:
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013, at 2:40, Andy Smith wrote:
A flaw in the Linux kernel introduced in 3.3
allows a local user to
crash the kernel or obtain root access. Those running new enough
distributions (notably including Ubuntu 12.04) are vulnerable, so
please check whether you need to update.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1763
http://lwn.net/Articles/540082/
Sure about Ubuntu 12.04? It running a 3.2 kernel it really shouldn't be
affected.
No, not sure; I was only going by:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1749-1/
but I see that whilst it mentions 12.04, it also says Quantal (which
is 12.10).
Cheers,
Andy
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