Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-6080-1 Moderate: Linux Kernel Stability Threats

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May 16, 2023

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-azure-fde: Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure CVM cloud systems

- linux-ibm: Linux kernel for IBM cloud systems

- linux-kvm: Linux kernel for cloud environments

- linux-lowlatency: Linux low latency kernel

- linux-oracle: Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems

- linux-aws-5.15: Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems

- linux-azure-5.15: Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure cloud systems

- linux-azure-fde-5.15: Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure CVM cloud systems

- linux-hwe-5.15: Linux hardware enablement (HWE) kernel

- linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15: Linux low latency kernel

Details:

It was discovered that some AMD x86-64 processors with SMT enabled could

speculatively execute instructions using a return address from a sibling

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service moderate severity Linux kernel AWS kernel Ubuntu 22.04

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   linux-image-5.15.0-1030-ibm     5.15.0-1030.33
   linux-image-5.15.0-1033-kvm     5.15.0-1033.38
   linux-image-5.15.0-1035-oracle  5.15.0-1035.41
   linux-image-5.15.0-1036-aws     5.15.0-1036.40
   linux-image-5.15.0-1038-azure   5.15.0-1038.45
   linux-image-5.15.0-1038-azure-fde  5.15.0-1038.45.1
   linux-image-5.15.0-72-generic   5.15.0-72.79
   linux-image-5.15.0-72-generic-64k  5.15.0-72.79
   linux-image-5.15.0-72-generic-lpae  5.15.0-72.79
   linux-image-5.15.0-72-lowlatency  5.15.0-72.79
   linux-image-5.15.0-72-lowlatency-64k  5.15.0-72.79
   linux-image-aws-lts-22.04       5.15.0.1036.35
   linux-image-azure               5.15.0.1038.34
   linux-image-azure-fde           5.15.0.1038.45.15
   linux-image-azure-lts-22.04     5.15.0.1038.34
   linux-image-generic             5.15.0.72.70
   linux-image-generic-64k         5.15.0.72.70
   linux-image-generic-lpae        5.15.0.72.70
   linux-image-ibm                 5.15.0.1030.26
   linux-image-kvm                 5.15.0.1033.29
   linux-image-lowlatency          5.15.0.72.77
   linux-image-lowlatency-64k      5.15.0.72.77
   linux-image-oracle              5.15.0.1035.30
   linux-image-virtual             5.15.0.72.70

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   linux-image-5.15.0-1036-aws     5.15.0-1036.40~20.04.1
   linux-image-5.15.0-1038-azure   5.15.0-1038.45~20.04.1
   linux-image-5.15.0-1038-azure-fde  5.15.0-1038.45~20.04.1.1
   linux-image-5.15.0-72-generic   5.15.0-72.79~20.04.1
   linux-image-5.15.0-72-generic-64k  5.15.0-72.79~20.04.1
   linux-image-5.15.0-72-generic-lpae  5.15.0-72.79~20.04.1
   linux-image-5.15.0-72-lowlatency  5.15.0-72.79~20.04.1
   linux-image-5.15.0-72-lowlatency-64k  5.15.0-72.79~20.04.1
   linux-image-aws                 5.15.0.1036.40~20.04.25
   linux-image-azure               5.15.0.1038.45~20.04.28
   linux-image-azure-cvm           5.15.0.1038.45~20.04.28
   linux-image-azure-fde           5.15.0.1038.45~20.04.1.17
   linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-20.04  5.15.0.72.79~20.04.33
   linux-image-generic-hwe-20.04   5.15.0.72.79~20.04.33
   linux-image-generic-lpae-hwe-20.04  5.15.0.72.79~20.04.33
   linux-image-lowlatency-64k-hwe-20.04  5.15.0.72.79~20.04.30
   linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-20.04  5.15.0.72.79~20.04.30
   linux-image-oem-20.04           5.15.0.72.79~20.04.33
   linux-image-oem-20.04b          5.15.0.72.79~20.04.33
   linux-image-oem-20.04c          5.15.0.72.79~20.04.33
   linux-image-oem-20.04d          5.15.0.72.79~20.04.33
   linux-image-virtual-hwe-20.04   5.15.0.72.79~20.04.33

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.