USN-4188-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
USN-4188-1: Linux kernel vulnerability linux, linux-lts-trusty vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary The system could be made to expose sensitive information. Software Description linux – Linux kernel linux-lts-trusty – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty for Precise ESM Details Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Österlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, and Jo Van Bulck discovered that Intel processors using Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) could expose memory contents previously stored in microarchitectural buffers to a malicious process that is executing on the same CPU core. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.04 ESM linux-image-3.13.0-175-generic – 3.13.0-175.226~12.04.1 linux-image-3.13.0-175-generic-lpae – [ more… ]