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Posted on 06 March 2012
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1384-1
March 06, 2012
linux-lts-backport-oneiric vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Summary:
Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Software Description:
- linux-lts-backport-oneiric: Linux kernel backport from Oneiric
Details:
A bug was discovered in the Linux kernel's calculation of OOM (Out of
memory) scores, that would result in the wrong process being killed. A us=
er
could use this to kill the process with the highest OOM score, even if th=
at
process belongs to another user or the system. (CVE-2011-4097)
Paolo Bonzini discovered a flaw in Linux's handling of the SG_IO ioctl
command. A local user, or user in a VM could exploit this flaw to bypass
restrictions and gain read/write access to all data on the affected block=
device. (CVE-2011-4127)
A flaw was found in KVM's Programmable Interval Timer (PIT). When a virtu=
al
interrupt control is not available a local user could use this to cause a=
denial of service by starting a timer. (CVE-2011-4622)
A flaw was discovered in the XFS filesystem. If a local user mounts a
specially crafted XFS image it could potential execute arbitrary code on
the system. (CVE-2012-0038)
Andy Whitcroft discovered a that the Overlayfs filesystem was not doing t=
he
extended permission checks needed by cgroups and Linux Security Modules
(LSMs). A local user could exploit this to by-pass security policy and
access files that should not be accessible. (CVE-2012-0055)
A flaw was found in the linux kernels IPv4 IGMP query processing. A remot=
e
attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0207)=
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
linux-image-3.0.0-16-generic 3.0.0-16.29~lucid1
linux-image-3.0.0-16-generic-pae 3.0.0-16.29~lucid1
linux-image-3.0.0-16-server 3.0.0-16.29~lucid1
linux-image-3.0.0-16-virtual 3.0.0-16.29~lucid1
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.
ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have
been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and
reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If
you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as
well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you
manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic=
,
linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automaticall=
y
perform this as well.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1384-1
CVE-2011-4097, CVE-2011-4127, CVE-2011-4622, CVE-2012-0038,
CVE-2012-0055, CVE-2012-0207
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-backport-oneiric/3.0.0-1=
6.29~lucid1
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