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New Kernel Vulnerability Affects Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

The CVE-2012-2390 vulnerability is actually an error discovered in the Linux kernel’s memory subsystem (hugetlb), which could allow unprivileged local users to exploit it and to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) attack by crashing the system.

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