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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2359-1 Moderate: Kernel Denial Of Service Report

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2014
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Multiple vulnerabilities in the kernel have been addressed in the new Ubuntu security notice. Information regarding fixes and potential effects is provided.
Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Software Description:

- linux: Linux kernel

Details:

Jack Morgenstein reported a flaw in the page handling of the KVM (Kerenl

Virtual Machine) subsystem in the Linux kernel. A guest OS user could

exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption)

or possibly have other unspecified impact on the host OS. (CVE-2014-3601)

Jason Gunthorpe reported a flaw with SCTP authentication in the Linux

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

service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS). (CVE-2014-5077)

Chris Evans reported an flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of iso9660

(compact disk filesystem) images. An attacker who can mount a custom

iso9660 image either via a CD/DVD drive or a loopback mount could cause a

denial of service (system crash or reboot). (CVE-2014-5471)

Chris Evans reported an flaw in the Linux kernel's handling of iso9660

(compact disk filesystem)...

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service ubuntu linux kernel

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  linux-image-3.13.0-36-generic   3.13.0-36.63
  linux-image-3.13.0-36-generic-lpae  3.13.0-36.63
  linux-image-3.13.0-36-lowlatency  3.13.0-36.63
  linux-image-3.13.0-36-powerpc-e500  3.13.0-36.63
  linux-image-3.13.0-36-powerpc-e500mc  3.13.0-36.63
  linux-image-3.13.0-36-powerpc-smp  3.13.0-36.63
  linux-image-3.13.0-36-powerpc64-emb  3.13.0-36.63
  linux-image-3.13.0-36-powerpc64-smp  3.13.0-36.63

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-2359-1

CVE-2014-3601, CVE-2014-5077, CVE-2014-5471, CVE-2014-5472

September 23, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service ubuntu linux kernel

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.13.0-36.63

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