USN-3159-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability<\/p>\n
20th December, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its The system could be made to expose sensitive information.\n<\/p>\n It was discovered that a race condition existed in the procfs 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-2016-7916<\/a><\/p>\n Source: USN-3159-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-3159-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3159-2 20th December, 2016 linux-ti-omap4 vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary The system could be made to expose sensitive information. Software description linux-ti-omap4 – Linux kernel for OMAP4 Details It was discovered that a race condition existed in the procfsenviron_read function in the Linux kernel, leading to an integerunderflow. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitiveinformation (kernel memory). Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: linux-image-3.2.0-1497-omap4 3.2.0-1497.124 linux-image-omap4 3.2.0.1497.92 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to makeall the necessary changes. ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates havebeen given a new [ 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-12866","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\/12866","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=12866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12867,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866\/revisions\/12867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}linux-ti-omap4 vulnerability<\/h3>\n
\n derivatives:<\/p>\n\n
Summary<\/h3>\n
Software description<\/h3>\n
\n
\n – Linux kernel for OMAP4<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDetails<\/h3>\n
environ_read function in the Linux kernel, leading to an integer
underflow. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive
information (kernel memory).<\/p>\nUpdate instructions<\/h3>\n
\npackage version:<\/p>\n\n
\n
\n 3.2.0-1497.124<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 3.2.0.1497.92<\/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