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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: 1598-2 Urgent: Linux Kernel Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2012
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A significant security alert has been issued concerning a kernel flaw in Ubuntu that poses risks to system reliability. Immediate software updates are essential to address this issue.
The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Summary

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Software Description:

- linux-ec2: Linux kernel for EC2

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).

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  linux-image-2.6.32-349-ec2      2.6.32-349.55

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-1597-1

CVE-2012-2745

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October 05, 2012

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