Advisory Published

USN-1341-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

First published: Mon Jan 23 2012(Updated: )

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) Dan Rosenberg reported an error in the old ABI compatibility layer of ARM kernels. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges. (CVE-2011-1759) Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the kernel's handling of corrupt LDM partitions. A local user could exploit this to cause a denial of service or escalate privileges. (CVE-2011-2182) Clement Lecigne discovered a bug in the HFS filesystem. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel oops. (CVE-2011-2203) A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel handles user-defined key types. An unprivileged local user could exploit this to crash the system. (CVE-2011-4110)

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.35-32-powerpc64-smp<2.6.35-32.64
2.6.35-32.64
=10.10
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.35-32-generic-pae<2.6.35-32.64
2.6.35-32.64
=10.10
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.35-32-versatile<2.6.35-32.64
2.6.35-32.64
=10.10
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.35-32-generic<2.6.35-32.64
2.6.35-32.64
=10.10
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.35-32-virtual<2.6.35-32.64
2.6.35-32.64
=10.10
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.35-32-powerpc-smp<2.6.35-32.64
2.6.35-32.64
=10.10
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.35-32-powerpc<2.6.35-32.64
2.6.35-32.64
=10.10
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.35-32-server<2.6.35-32.64
2.6.35-32.64
=10.10
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.35-32-omap<2.6.35-32.64
2.6.35-32.64
=10.10

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