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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS USN-3443-3: linux-gcp Critical Denial Of Service

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The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3443-3
October 11, 2017

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

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Software Description:
- linux-gcp: Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems

Details:

Andrey Konovalov discovered that a divide-by-zero error existed in the TCP
stack implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this
to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2017-14106)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  linux-image-4.10.0-1007-gcp     4.10.0-1007.7
  linux-image-gcp                 4.10.0.1007.9

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-3443-3
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3443-1
  CVE-2017-14106

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-gcp/4.10.0-1007.7

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS USN-3443-3: linux-gcp Critical Denial Of Service

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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 16.04 LTS: linux-image-4.10.0-1007-gcp 4.10.0-1007.7 linux-image-gcp 4.10.0.1007.9 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-3443-3

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3443-1

CVE-2017-14106

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October 11, 2017

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-gcp/4.10.0-1007.7

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