[USN-1743-1] Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerability

Severity Medium

CVEs 3

The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Suleiman Souhlal, Salman Qazi, Aaron Durbin and Michael Davidson discovered
a race condition in the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall. An unprivileged
local attacker could exploit this flaw to run programs as an administrator.
(CVE-2013-0871)

A flaw was discovered in the Edgeort USB serial converter driver when the
device is disconnected while it is in use. A local user could exploit this
flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2013-1774)

A flaw was discovered in the ChipIdea Highspeed Dual Role and ChipIdea host
controller drivers in the Linux kernel. A local user could use this flaw to
cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2013-2058)

ID

USN-1743-1

Severity

medium

Severity from

CVE-2013-0871

URL

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1743-1

Published