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Ubuntu 13.04 USN-1934-1 Critical: linux-ti-omap4 Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2013
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3245-1 outlines various kernel vulnerabilities and remedies for ARMv7 issues in Debian 8.
Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Software Description:

- linux-ti-omap4: Linux kernel for OMAP4

Details:

Chanam Park reported a Null pointer flaw in the Linux kernel's Ceph client.

A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service

(system crash). (CVE-2013-1059)

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel's fanotify

interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive

information from kernel memory. (CVE-2013-2148)

Kees Cook discovered a format string vulnerability in the Linux kernel's

disk block layer. A local user with administrator privileges could exploit

this flaw to gain kernel privileges. (CVE-2013-2851)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service information leak critical kernel ubuntu linux-ti-omap4

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.04:
  linux-image-3.5.0-231-omap4     3.5.0-231.47

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-1934-1

CVE-2013-1059, CVE-2013-2148, CVE-2013-2851

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security advisory denial of service information leak critical kernel ubuntu linux-ti-omap4

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ti-omap4/3.5.0-231.47

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