USN-1931-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities

Chanam Park reported a Null pointer flaw in the Linux kernel's Ceph client. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2013-1059 An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's fanotify interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtai...

Important: kernel security update

2.6.9-55.0.12.0.1 - fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool John Sobecki orabug 5931647 - fix for nfs open call taking longer issue Chuck Lever orabug 5580407 bz 219412 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - fix percpu api bugon with rds Zach...