Secunia Security Advisory - Debian has issued an update for linux-2.6. This fixes multiple security issues and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and disclose potentially sensitive information and by malicious, local users and malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
Debian update for linux-2.6
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA48523
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-03-27
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DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for linux-2.6. This fixes multiple
security issues and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and
disclose potentially sensitive information and by malicious, local
users and malicious, local users in a guest virtual machine to cause
a DoS (Denial of Service).
For more information:
SA37658
SA45563
SA47431
SA47482
SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the apt-get package manager.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
DSA-2443-1:
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2443
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