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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: 3037-1 Critical: Kernel Crash Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2016
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An essential patch addressing a kernel problem in Ubuntu leading to system failures from memory allocation faults.
The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Summary

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Software Description:

- linux-lts-vivid: Linux hardware enablement kernel from Vivid for Trusty

Details:

Jan Stancek discovered that the Linux kernel's memory manager did not

properly handle moving pages mapped by the asynchronous I/O (AIO) ring

buffer to the other nodes. A local attacker could use this to cause a

denial of service (system crash).

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Topics Covered

security advisory memory management ubuntu dos kernel crash

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  linux-image-3.19.0-65-generic   3.19.0-65.73~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-65-generic-lpae  3.19.0-65.73~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-65-lowlatency  3.19.0-65.73~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-65-powerpc-e500mc  3.19.0-65.73~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-65-powerpc-smp  3.19.0-65.73~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-65-powerpc64-emb  3.19.0-65.73~14.04.1
  linux-image-3.19.0-65-powerpc64-smp  3.19.0-65.73~14.04.1

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.
Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages
(e.g. linux-generic, linux-generic-lts-RELEASE, linux-virtual,
linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform
this as well.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3037-1

CVE-2016-3070

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July 14, 2016

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Topics Covered

security advisory memory management ubuntu dos kernel crash

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-vivid/3.19.0-65.73~14.04.1

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