Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1424-1

Please Install the Updated Packages.

It was discovered that OpenSSL could be made to dereference a NULL pointer when processing S/MIME messages. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. These issues did not affect Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. (CVE-2006-7250, CVE-2012-1165) Tavis Ormandy discovered that OpenSSL did not properly perform bounds checking when processing DER data via BIO or FILE functions. A remote attacker could trigger this flaw in services that used SSL to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges. (CVE-2012-2110)

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