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Ubuntu 15.04 USN-2802-1 Critical: Kernel Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2015
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A significant vulnerability in the kernel enables malicious actors to destabilize the system when certain criteria are met. Refer to the update guidelines given.
The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Summary

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Software Description:

- linux: Linux kernel

Details:

Ben Serebrin discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux

kernel did not properly catch Alignment Check exceptions. An attacker in a

guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service (system

crash) in the host OS.

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.04:
  linux-image-3.19.0-33-generic   3.19.0-33.38
  linux-image-3.19.0-33-generic-lpae  3.19.0-33.38
  linux-image-3.19.0-33-lowlatency  3.19.0-33.38
  linux-image-3.19.0-33-powerpc-e500mc  3.19.0-33.38
  linux-image-3.19.0-33-powerpc-smp  3.19.0-33.38
  linux-image-3.19.0-33-powerpc64-emb  3.19.0-33.38
  linux-image-3.19.0-33-powerpc64-smp  3.19.0-33.38

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-2802-1

CVE-2015-5307

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November 10, 2015

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.19.0-33.38

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