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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-2763-1 Critical: Linux-LTS-Trusty Privilege Escalation

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The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2763-1
October 05, 2015

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

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Software Description:
- linux-lts-trusty: Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty

Details:

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly initialize
IPC object state in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to
escalate their privileges, expose confidential information, or cause a
denial of service (system crash).

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  linux-image-3.13.0-65-generic   3.13.0-65.106~precise1
  linux-image-3.13.0-65-generic-lpae  3.13.0-65.106~precise1

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-2763-1
  CVE-2015-7613

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-trusty/3.13.0-65.106~precise1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS USN-2763-1 Critical: Linux-LTS-Trusty Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2015
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=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-
The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: linux-image-3.13.0-65-generic 3.13.0-65.106~precise1 linux-image-3.13.0-65-generic-lpae 3.13.0-65.106~precise1 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-2763-1

CVE-2015-7613

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October 05, 2015

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-trusty/3.13.0-65.106~precise1

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