Ubuntu 10.10 vulnerable to system crash and DOS attack

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PenTester

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Jul 30, 2011
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kernel incorrectly handled certain VLAN packets leading to a remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash the system, leading to a denial of service. EFI GUID partition table was not correctly parsed leading to A physically local attacker that could insert mountable devices could exploit this to crash the system or possibly gain root privileges.

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