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Ubuntu 11.04: USN-1567-1 Critical: Kernel DoS Issues Addressed

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2012
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Numerous core vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 11.04 resolved; essential updates address denial of service and elevation of privilege issues.
Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Software Description:

- linux: Linux kernel

Details:

A flaw was found in how the Linux kernel passed the replacement session

keyring to a child process. An unprivileged local user could exploit this

flaw to cause a denial of service (panic). (CVE-2012-2745)

Ben Hutchings reported a flaw in the Linux kernel with some network drivers

that support TSO (TCP segment offload). A local or peer user could exploit

this flaw to to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-3412)

Jay Fenlason and Doug Ledford discovered a bug in the Linux kernel

implementation of RDS sockets. A local unprivileged user could potentially

use this flaw to read privileged information from the kernel.

(CVE-2012-3430)

A flaw was discovered in the madvise feature of the Linux kernel's memory

subsystem. An unprivileged local use could exploit the flaw to cause a

denial of service (crash the system). (CVE-2012-3511)

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04:
  linux-image-2.6.38-16-generic   2.6.38-16.67
  linux-image-2.6.38-16-generic-pae  2.6.38-16.67
  linux-image-2.6.38-16-omap      2.6.38-16.67
  linux-image-2.6.38-16-powerpc   2.6.38-16.67
  linux-image-2.6.38-16-powerpc-smp  2.6.38-16.67
  linux-image-2.6.38-16-powerpc64-smp  2.6.38-16.67
  linux-image-2.6.38-16-server    2.6.38-16.67
  linux-image-2.6.38-16-versatile  2.6.38-16.67
  linux-image-2.6.38-16-virtual   2.6.38-16.67

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

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1567-1

CVE-2012-2745, CVE-2012-3412, CVE-2012-3430, CVE-2012-3511

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security advisory denial of service Ubuntu critical fix kernel

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/2.6.38-16.67

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