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==========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2824-1
December 01, 2015
linux-lts-utopic vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Summary:
The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.
Software Description:
- linux-lts-utopic: Linux hardware enablement kernel from Utopic
Details:
Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler attempted
to garbage collect incompletely instantiated keys. A local unprivileged
attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
linux-image-3.16.0-55-generic 3.16.0-55.74~14.04.1
linux-image-3.16.0-55-generic-lpae 3.16.0-55.74~14.04.1
linux-image-3.16.0-55-lowlatency 3.16.0-55.74~14.04.1
linux-image-3.16.0-55-powerpc-e500mc 3.16.0-55.74~14.04.1
linux-image-3.16.0-55-powerpc-smp 3.16.0-55.74~14.04.1
linux-image-3.16.0-55-powerpc64-emb 3.16.0-55.74~14.04.1
linux-image-3.16.0-55-powerpc64-smp 3.16.0-55.74~14.04.1
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 automatically
perform this as well.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2824-1
CVE-2015-7872
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-utopic/3.16.0-55.74~14.04.1
