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Ubuntu 14.10 USN-2448-1 Moderate: Kernel Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey December 12, 2014
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Tackle Ubuntu 14.10 kernel problems using these essential security patches that target severe denial of service vulnerabilities.
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 in the Linux kernel was discovered that could leak the

high 16 bits of the kernel stack address on 32-bit Kernel Virtual Machine

(KVM) paravirt guests. A user in the guest OS could exploit this leak to

obtain information that could potentially be used to aid in attacking the

kernel. (CVE-2014-8134)

Rabin Vincent, Robert Swiecki, Russell King discovered that the ftrace

subsystem of the Linux kernel does not properly handle private syscall

numbers. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service

(OOPS). (CVE-2014-7826)

A flaw in the handling of malformed ASCONF chunks by SCTP (Stream Control

Transmission Protocol) implementation in the Linux kernel was discovered. A

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

(system crash). (CVE-2014-3673)

A flaw in the handling of duplicate ASCONF chunks b...

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security advisory denial of service security fix Ubuntu vulnerability kernel system update

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  linux-image-3.16.0-28-generic   3.16.0-28.37
  linux-image-3.16.0-28-generic-lpae  3.16.0-28.37
  linux-image-3.16.0-28-lowlatency  3.16.0-28.37
  linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc-e500mc  3.16.0-28.37
  linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc-smp  3.16.0-28.37
  linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc64-emb  3.16.0-28.37
  linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc64-smp  3.16.0-28.37

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-2448-1

CVE-2014-3673, CVE-2014-3687, CVE-2014-3688, CVE-2014-7825,

CVE-2014-7826, CVE-2014-7970, CVE-2014-8086, CVE-2014-8134,

CVE-2014-8369, CVE-2014-9090

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December 12, 2014

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security advisory denial of service security fix Ubuntu vulnerability kernel system update

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.16.0-28.37

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