Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1038-1

Please Install the Updated Packages.

Jakub Wilk and Rapha&#235 l Hertzog discovered that dpkg-source did not correctly handle certain paths and symlinks when unpacking source-format version 3.0 packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted source package, a remote attacker could modify files outside the target unpack directory, leading to a denial of service or potentially gaining access to the system.

dpkg vulnerability on Ubuntu 9.10 , Ubuntu 10.04 LTS , Ubuntu 10.10