Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1177-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Andrew Griffiths discovered that QEMU did not correctly drop privileges when using the 'runas' argument. Under certain circumstances a local attacker could exploit this to escalate privileges.
Affected
qemu-kvm on Ubuntu 11.04 ,
Ubuntu 10.10 ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-2527 -
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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