USN-3152-1: Linux kernel vulnerability<\/p>\n
5th December, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.\n<\/p>\n Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the af_packet 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-2016-8655<\/a><\/p>\n Source: USN-3152-1: Linux kernel vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-3152-1: Linux kernel vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3152-1 5th December, 2016 linux vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Summary The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator. Software description linux – Linux kernel Details Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the af_packetimplementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could usethis to cause a denial of service (system crash) or run arbitrary code withadministrative privileges. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.10: linux-image-powerpc-smp 4.8.0.30.39 linux-image-4.8.0-30-generic 4.8.0-30.32 linux-image-4.8.0-30-powerpc-smp 4.8.0-30.32 linux-image-4.8.0-30-powerpc-e500mc 4.8.0-30.32 linux-image-4.8.0-30-lowlatency 4.8.0-30.32 linux-image-generic 4.8.0.30.39 linux-image-4.8.0-30-generic-lpae 4.8.0-30.32 linux-image-powerpc-e500mc 4.8.0.30.39 linux-image-powerpc64-emb 4.8.0.30.39 linux-image-generic-lpae 4.8.0.30.39 linux-image-lowlatency 4.8.0.30.39 linux-image-4.8.0-30-powerpc64-emb 4.8.0-30.32 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to reboot [ 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-12451","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\/12451","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=12451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12452,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12451\/revisions\/12452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}linux vulnerability<\/h3>\n
\n derivatives:<\/p>\n\n
Summary<\/h3>\n
Software description<\/h3>\n
\n
\n – Linux kernel<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDetails<\/h3>\n
implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use
this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or run arbitrary code with
administrative privileges.<\/p>\nUpdate instructions<\/h3>\n
\npackage version:<\/p>\n\n
\n
\n 4.8.0.30.39<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 4.8.0-30.32<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 4.8.0-30.32<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 4.8.0-30.32<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 4.8.0-30.32<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 4.8.0.30.39<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 4.8.0-30.32<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 4.8.0.30.39<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 4.8.0.30.39<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 4.8.0.30.39<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 4.8.0.30.39<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 4.8.0-30.32<\/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