New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Four Ubuntu OSes

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Marius Nestor
Nov 30, 2012

Canonical announced a few hours ago, November 30, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating systems is now available, fixing two important security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.

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Marius Nestor

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