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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2463-1
January 13, 2015
linux vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary:
Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Software Description:
- linux: Linux kernel
Details:
A race condition with MMIO and PIO transactions in the KVM (Kernel Virtual
Machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel was discovered. A guest OS user
could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) via a
specially crafted application. (CVE-2014-7842)
The KVM (kernel virtual machine) subsystem of the Linux kernel
miscalculates the number of memory pages during the handling of a mapping
failure. A guest OS user could exploit this to cause a denial of service
(host OS page unpinning) or possibly have unspecified other impact by
leveraging guest OS privileges. (CVE-2014-8369)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
linux-image-3.2.0-75-generic 3.2.0-75.110
linux-image-3.2.0-75-generic-pae 3.2.0-75.110
linux-image-3.2.0-75-highbank 3.2.0-75.110
linux-image-3.2.0-75-omap 3.2.0-75.110
linux-image-3.2.0-75-powerpc-smp 3.2.0-75.110
linux-image-3.2.0-75-powerpc64-smp 3.2.0-75.110
linux-image-3.2.0-75-virtual 3.2.0-75.110
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. If
you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as
well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you
manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic,
linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically
perform this as well.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2463-1
CVE-2014-7842, CVE-2014-8369
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.2.0-75.110
