[USN-1260-1] Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability

Severity Medium

CVEs 3

A security issue was fixed in the kernel.

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading
security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the
results of a previous TPM command. (CVE-2011-1162)

Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access
restrictions. A local attacker could exploit this to read certain
information, leading to a loss of privacy. (CVE-2011-2494)

Mathieu Desnoyers discovered that the kernel sockets implementation
incorrectly dereferenced user pointers. A local attacker could possibly
exploit this to crash the system. (CVE-2011-4594)

ID

USN-1260-1

Severity

medium

Severity from

CVE-2011-4594

URL

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1260-1

Published