Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-590-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered that bzip2 did not correctly handle certain malformed archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted bzip2 archive, applications linked against libbz2 could be made to crash, possibly leading to a denial of service.
Affected
bzip2 vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10 ,
Ubuntu 7.04 ,
Ubuntu 7.10
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-1372 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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