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Ubuntu 9.10 USN-789-2 Urgent: Kernel-3.2 Vulnerability Notification

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2007
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
An urgent alert has been issued concerning the xen-3.0 security flaw, which presents an opportunity for guest root accounts to compromise the integrity of the host machine on Ubuntu platforms.
Joris van Rantwijk discovered that the Xen host did not correctly validate the contents of a Xen guests's grug.conf file

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-527-1 October 05, 2007

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security advisory security issue critical system update ubuntu root exploit xen

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