USN-3105-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability<\/p>\n
19th October, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.\n<\/p>\n USN-3105-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following To update your system, please follow these instructions: After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have CVE-2016-5195<\/a><\/p>\n Source: USN-3105-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-3105-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3105-2 19th October, 2016 linux-lts-trusty vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary The system could be made to run programs as an administrator. Software description linux-lts-trusty – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty for Precise Details USN-3105-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the LinuxHardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu12.04 LTS. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager ofthe Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-onlymemory mappings. A local attacker could use this to gain administrativeprivileges. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: linux-image-3.13.0-100-generic-lpae 3.13.0-100.147~precise1 linux-image-3.13.0-100-generic 3.13.0-100.147~precise1 To update [ more… ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-11273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11274,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11273\/revisions\/11274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}linux-lts-trusty vulnerability<\/h3>\n
\n derivatives:<\/p>\n\n
Summary<\/h3>\n
Software description<\/h3>\n
\n
\n – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty for Precise<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDetails<\/h3>\n
LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux
Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu
12.04 LTS.<\/p>\n
the Linux kernel when handling copy-on-write breakage of private read-only
memory mappings. A local attacker could use this to gain administrative
privileges.<\/p>\nUpdate instructions<\/h3>\n
\npackage version:<\/p>\n\n
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\n 3.13.0-100.147~precise1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
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\n 3.13.0-100.147~precise1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\nhttps:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\nReferences<\/h3>\n