USN-3594-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
USN-3594-1: Linux kernel vulnerability linux vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary The system could be made to expose sensitive information. Software Description linux – Linux kernel Details USN-3542-1 mitigated CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre Variant 2) for the amd64 architecture in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the compiler-based retpoline kernel mitigation for the amd64 and i386 architectures. Original advisory details: Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. (CVE-2017-5715) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS linux-image-3.13.0-143-generic – 3.13.0-143.192 linux-image-3.13.0-143-generic-lpae – 3.13.0-143.192 linux-image-3.13.0-143-lowlatency – 3.13.0-143.192 linux-image-generic – 3.13.0.143.153 linux-image-generic-lpae – [ more… ]