New Kernel Vulnerability Affects Ubuntu 12.10 | Linux Today

New Kernel Vulnerability Affects Ubuntu 12.10

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Marius Nestor
Oct 23, 2013

Dan Carpenter discovered an information leak in the Compaq SMART2 disk-array driver and HP Smart Aray in the Linux kernel, which could allow a local user to gather sensitive information from kernel memory.

To learn more about this new kernel vulnerability, please read the CVE-2013-2147 reference, because it affects other Linux operating systems as well.

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Marius Nestor

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