Ubuntu 4412-1 Critical: Multiple Kernel Issues Cause Denial of Service

ubuntu

July 2, 2020

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Software Description:

- linux: Linux kernel

- linux-azure: Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems

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

- linux-kvm: Linux kernel for cloud environments

- linux-oracle: Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems

- linux-gcp-5.3: Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems

- linux-hwe: Linux hardware enablement (HWE) kernel

- linux-oracle-5.3: Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems

Details:

Matthew Sheets discovered that the SELinux network label handling

implementation in the Linux kernel could be coerced into de-referencing a

NULL pointer. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service

(system crash). (CVE-2020-10711)

It was discovered that the SCSI generic (sg) driver in the Linux kernel did

not properly handle certain error conditions correctly. A local privileged

attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service bug fix Ubuntu kernel system crash Linux update

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.10:
  linux-image-5.3.0-1024-kvm      5.3.0-1024.26
  linux-image-5.3.0-1028-oracle   5.3.0-1028.30
  linux-image-5.3.0-1030-gcp      5.3.0-1030.32
  linux-image-5.3.0-1031-azure    5.3.0-1031.32
  linux-image-5.3.0-62-generic    5.3.0-62.56
  linux-image-5.3.0-62-generic-lpae  5.3.0-62.56
  linux-image-5.3.0-62-lowlatency  5.3.0-62.56
  linux-image-5.3.0-62-snapdragon  5.3.0-62.56
  linux-image-azure               5.3.0.1031.49
  linux-image-gcp                 5.3.0.1030.40
  linux-image-generic             5.3.0.62.52
  linux-image-generic-lpae        5.3.0.62.52
  linux-image-gke                 5.3.0.1030.40
  linux-image-kvm                 5.3.0.1024.22
  linux-image-lowlatency          5.3.0.62.52
  linux-image-oracle              5.3.0.1028.43
  linux-image-snapdragon          5.3.0.62.52
  linux-image-virtual             5.3.0.62.52

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  linux-image-5.3.0-1028-oracle   5.3.0-1028.30~18.04.1
  linux-image-5.3.0-1030-gcp      5.3.0-1030.32~18.04.1
  linux-image-5.3.0-62-generic    5.3.0-62.56~18.04.1
  linux-image-5.3.0-62-generic-lpae  5.3.0-62.56~18.04.1
  linux-image-5.3.0-62-lowlatency  5.3.0-62.56~18.04.1
  linux-image-gcp                 5.3.0.1030.24
  linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04   5.3.0.62.115
  linux-image-generic-lpae-hwe-18.04  5.3.0.62.115
  linux-image-gkeop-5.3           5.3.0.62.115
  linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-18.04  5.3.0.62.115
  linux-image-oracle              5.3.0.1028.25
  linux-image-snapdragon-hwe-18.04  5.3.0.62.115
  linux-image-virtual-hwe-18.04   5.3.0.62.115

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.