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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2718-1 Critical: Kernel Denial of Service

Ubuntu Large Esm H500
The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2718-1
August 18, 2015

linux-lts-vivid vulnerability
=========================================================================
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Software Description:
- linux-lts-vivid: Linux hardware enablement kernel from Vivid

Details:

Marcelo Ricardo Leitner discovered a race condition in the Linux kernel's
SCTP address configuration lists when using Address Configuration Change
(ASCONF) options on a socket. An unprivileged local user could exploit this
flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash).

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  linux-image-3.19.0-26-generic   3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-26-generic-lpae  3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-26-lowlatency  3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-26-powerpc-e500mc  3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-26-powerpc-smp  3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-26-powerpc64-emb  3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-26-powerpc64-smp  3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1

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-2718-1
  CVE-2015-3212

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-vivid/3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1


Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2718-1 Critical: Kernel Denial of Service

ubuntu
Calendar Grey August 18, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Attention Ubuntu 14.04 LTS users: a critical security update is required to address a kernel race condition that may result in system instability. Immediate action is recommended.
The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: linux-image-3.19.0-26-generic 3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1 linux-image-3.19.0-26-generic-lpae 3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1 linux-image-3.19.0-26-lowlatency 3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1 linux-image-3.19.0-26-powerpc-e500mc 3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1 linux-image-3.19.0-26-powerpc-smp 3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1 linux-image-3.19.0-26-powerpc64-emb 3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1 linux-image-3.19.0-26-powerpc64-smp 3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1 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-2718-1

CVE-2015-3212

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August 18, 2015

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-vivid/3.19.0-26.28~14.04.1

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