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Ubuntu 12.10: USN-1996-1 Moderate: Kernel Information Leak Advisory

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Calendar Grey October 22, 2013
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Ubuntu 14.04 security alert about a kernel vulnerability that might expose confidential information to local accounts. Immediate update recommended.
The system could be made to expose sensitive information to a local user.

Summary

The system could be made to expose sensitive information to a local user.

Software Description:

- linux: Linux kernel

Details:

Dan Carpenter discovered an information leak in the HP Smart Array and

Compaq SMART2 disk-array driver in the Linux kernel. A local user could

exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory.

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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 12.10:
  linux-image-3.5.0-42-generic    3.5.0-42.65
  linux-image-3.5.0-42-highbank   3.5.0-42.65
  linux-image-3.5.0-42-omap       3.5.0-42.65
  linux-image-3.5.0-42-powerpc-smp  3.5.0-42.65
  linux-image-3.5.0-42-powerpc64-smp  3.5.0-42.65

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

CVE-2013-2147

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October 22, 2013

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate information leak Ubuntu security patch linux kernel

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.5.0-42.65

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