Ubuntu 20.04 & 18.04 USN-5071-1 Moderate: Linux Kernel Problems

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September 8, 2021

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-aws: Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems

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

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

- linux-gke: Linux kernel for Google Container Engine (GKE) systems

- linux-gkeop: Linux kernel for Google Container Engine (GKE) systems

- linux-kvm: Linux kernel for cloud environments

- linux-oracle: Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems

- linux-aws-5.4: Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems

- linux-azure-5.4: Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure cloud systems

- linux-gcp-5.4: Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems

- linux-gke-5.4: Linux kernel for Google Container Engine (GKE) systems

- linux-gkeop-5.4: Linux kernel for Google Container Engine (GKE) systems

- linux-oracle-5.4: Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems

Details:

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered...

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  linux-image-5.4.0-1023-gkeop    5.4.0-1023.24
  linux-image-5.4.0-1046-kvm      5.4.0-1046.48
  linux-image-5.4.0-1052-gcp      5.4.0-1052.56
  linux-image-5.4.0-1052-gke      5.4.0-1052.55
  linux-image-5.4.0-1054-oracle   5.4.0-1054.58
  linux-image-5.4.0-1056-aws      5.4.0-1056.59
  linux-image-5.4.0-1058-azure    5.4.0-1058.60
  linux-image-5.4.0-84-generic    5.4.0-84.94
  linux-image-5.4.0-84-generic-lpae  5.4.0-84.94
  linux-image-5.4.0-84-lowlatency  5.4.0-84.94
  linux-image-aws-lts-20.04       5.4.0.1056.59
  linux-image-azure-lts-20.04     5.4.0.1058.56
  linux-image-gcp-lts-20.04       5.4.0.1052.62
  linux-image-generic             5.4.0.84.88
  linux-image-generic-lpae        5.4.0.84.88
  linux-image-gke                 5.4.0.1052.62
  linux-image-gke-5.4             5.4.0.1052.62
  linux-image-gkeop               5.4.0.1023.26
  linux-image-gkeop-5.4           5.4.0.1023.26
  linux-image-kvm                 5.4.0.1046.45
  linux-image-lowlatency          5.4.0.84.88
  linux-image-oem                 5.4.0.84.88
  linux-image-oem-osp1            5.4.0.84.88
  linux-image-oracle-lts-20.04    5.4.0.1054.54
  linux-image-virtual             5.4.0.84.88

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  linux-image-5.4.0-1023-gkeop    5.4.0-1023.24~18.04.1
  linux-image-5.4.0-1052-gcp      5.4.0-1052.56~18.04.1
  linux-image-5.4.0-1052-gke      5.4.0-1052.55~18.04.1
  linux-image-5.4.0-1054-oracle   5.4.0-1054.58~18.04.1
  linux-image-5.4.0-1056-aws      5.4.0-1056.59~18.04.1
  linux-image-5.4.0-1058-azure    5.4.0-1058.60~18.04.1
  linux-image-aws                 5.4.0.1056.39
  linux-image-azure               5.4.0.1058.38
  linux-image-gcp                 5.4.0.1052.38
  linux-image-gke-5.4             5.4.0.1052.55~18.04.17
  linux-image-gkeop-5.4           5.4.0.1023.24~18.04.24
  linux-image-oracle              5.4.0.1054.58~18.04.34

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.