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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS USN-1976-1 Critical HID and DoS Issues

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2013
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Several crucial vulnerabilities in the core kernel were resolved through significant updates for Ubuntu LTS, enhancing overall system protection and stability.
Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Software Description:

- linux: Linux kernel

Details:

An information leak was discovered in the handling of ICMPv6 Router

Advertisement (RA) messages in the Linux kernel's IPv6 network stack. A

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

(excessive retries and address-generation outage), and consequently obtain

sensitive information. (CVE-2013-0343)

Kees Cook discovered flaw in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem of

the Linux kernel. A physically proximate attacker could exploit this flaw

to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory

corruption) via a specially crafted device that provides an invalid Report

ID. (CVE-2013-2888)

Kees Cook discovered a flaw in the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem

of the Linux kerenl when CONFIG_HID_PANTHERLORD is enabled. A physically

proximate attacker could cause a denial of service (heap out-of-bounds

write) via a...

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Topics Covered

security advisory information leak DoS Ubuntu kernel heap memory corruption HID subsystem

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-386       2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-generic   2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-generic-pae  2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-ia64      2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-lpia      2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-powerpc   2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-powerpc-smp  2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-powerpc64-smp  2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-preempt   2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-server    2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-sparc64   2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-sparc64-smp  2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-versatile  2.6.32-52.114
  linux-image-2.6.32-52-virtual   2.6.32-52.114

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-1976-1

CVE-2013-0343, CVE-2013-2888, CVE-2013-2892

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September 30, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory information leak DoS Ubuntu kernel heap memory corruption HID subsystem

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/2.6.32-52.114

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