Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : linux, linux-source-2.6.15/22 vulnerabilities (USN-679-1)

It was discovered that the Xen hypervisor block driver did not correctly validate requests. A user with root privileges in a guest OS could make a malicious IO request with a large number of blocks that would crash the host OS, leading to a denial of service. This only affected Ubuntu 7.10...

Ubuntu Update for linux, linux-source-2.6.15/22 vulnerabilities USN-679-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-679-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN6791.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux, linux-source-2.6.15/22 vulnerabilities USN-679-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks...

USN-679-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Xen hypervisor block driver did not correctly validate requests. A user with root privileges in a guest OS could make a malicious IO request with a large number of blocks that would crash the host OS, leading to a denial of service. This only affected Ubuntu 7.10...