=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3082-1
September 19, 2016

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

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

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

Software Description:
- linux: Linux kernel

Details:

Chiachih Wu, Yuan-Tsung Lo, and Xuxian Jiang discovered that the legacy ABI
for ARM (OABI) had incomplete access checks for epoll_wait(2) and
semtimedop(2). A local attacker could use this to possibly execute
arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  linux-image-3.2.0-110-generic   3.2.0-110.151
  linux-image-3.2.0-110-generic-pae  3.2.0-110.151
  linux-image-3.2.0-110-highbank  3.2.0-110.151
  linux-image-3.2.0-110-omap      3.2.0-110.151
  linux-image-3.2.0-110-powerpc-smp  3.2.0-110.151
  linux-image-3.2.0-110-powerpc64-smp  3.2.0-110.151
  linux-image-3.2.0-110-virtual   3.2.0-110.151

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-3082-1
  CVE-2016-3857

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.2.0-110.151

Ubuntu 3082-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

September 19, 2016
The system could be made to 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-3.2.0-110-generic 3.2.0-110.151 linux-image-3.2.0-110-generic-pae 3.2.0-110.151 linux-image-3.2.0-110-highbank 3.2.0-110.151 linux-image-3.2.0-110-omap 3.2.0-110.151 linux-image-3.2.0-110-powerpc-smp 3.2.0-110.151 linux-image-3.2.0-110-powerpc64-smp 3.2.0-110.151 linux-image-3.2.0-110-virtual 3.2.0-110.151 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-3082-1

CVE-2016-3857

Severity
September 19, 2016

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.2.0-110.151

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