Ubuntu 21.10 and 20.04 LTS USN-5383-1 Critical Kernel Issues

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April 20, 2022

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-kvm: Linux kernel for cloud environments

- linux-oracle: Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems

- linux-raspi: Linux kernel for Raspberry Pi systems

- linux-aws-5.13: Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems

- linux-azure-5.13: Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure cloud systems

- linux-gcp-5.13: Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems

- linux-hwe-5.13: Linux hardware enablement (HWE) kernel

- linux-oracle-5.13: Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems

Details:

David Bouman discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel

did not properly validate passed user register indices. A local attacker

could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arb...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical linux kernel ubuntu 21.10 ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.10:
  linux-image-5.13.0-1021-kvm     5.13.0-1021.22
  linux-image-5.13.0-1022-aws     5.13.0-1022.24
  linux-image-5.13.0-1022-azure   5.13.0-1022.26
  linux-image-5.13.0-1024-gcp     5.13.0-1024.29
  linux-image-5.13.0-1025-raspi   5.13.0-1025.27
  linux-image-5.13.0-1025-raspi-nolpae  5.13.0-1025.27
  linux-image-5.13.0-1027-oracle  5.13.0-1027.32
  linux-image-5.13.0-40-generic   5.13.0-40.45
  linux-image-5.13.0-40-generic-64k  5.13.0-40.45
  linux-image-5.13.0-40-generic-lpae  5.13.0-40.45
  linux-image-5.13.0-40-lowlatency  5.13.0-40.45
  linux-image-aws                 5.13.0.1022.23
  linux-image-azure               5.13.0.1022.22
  linux-image-gcp                 5.13.0.1024.22
  linux-image-generic             5.13.0.40.49
  linux-image-generic-64k         5.13.0.40.49
  linux-image-generic-lpae        5.13.0.40.49
  linux-image-gke                 5.13.0.1024.22
  linux-image-kvm                 5.13.0.1021.21
  linux-image-lowlatency          5.13.0.40.49
  linux-image-oem-20.04           5.13.0.40.49
  linux-image-oracle              5.13.0.1027.27
  linux-image-raspi               5.13.0.1025.30
  linux-image-raspi-nolpae        5.13.0.1025.30
  linux-image-virtual             5.13.0.40.49

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  linux-image-5.13.0-1022-aws     5.13.0-1022.24~20.04.1
  linux-image-5.13.0-1022-azure   5.13.0-1022.26~20.04.1
  linux-image-5.13.0-1024-gcp     5.13.0-1024.29~20.04.1
  linux-image-5.13.0-1027-oracle  5.13.0-1027.32~20.04.1
  linux-image-5.13.0-40-generic   5.13.0-40.45~20.04.1
  linux-image-5.13.0-40-generic-64k  5.13.0-40.45~20.04.1
  linux-image-5.13.0-40-generic-lpae  5.13.0-40.45~20.04.1
  linux-image-5.13.0-40-lowlatency  5.13.0-40.45~20.04.1
  linux-image-aws                 5.13.0.1022.24~20.04.15
  linux-image-azure               5.13.0.1022.26~20.04.11
  linux-image-gcp                 5.13.0.1024.29~20.04.1
  linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-20.04  5.13.0.40.45~20.04.25
  linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04   5.13.0.40.45~20.04.25
  linux-image-generic-lpae-hwe-20.04  5.13.0.40.45~20.04.25
  linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-20.04  5.13.0.40.45~20.04.25
  linux-image-oracle              5.13.0.1027.32~20.04.1
  linux-image-virtual-hwe-20.04   5.13.0.40.45~20.04.25

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.