USN-3187-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities<\/p>\n
3rd February, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.\n<\/p>\n Andrey Konovalov discovered that the SCTP implementation in the Linux It was discovered that multiple memory leaks existed in the XFS 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-2016-9555<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2016-9685<\/a><\/p>\n Source: USN-3187-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-3187-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3187-1 3rd February, 2017 linux vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Software description linux – Linux kernel Details Andrey Konovalov discovered that the SCTP implementation in the Linuxkernel improperly handled validation of incoming data. A remote attackercould use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-9555) It was discovered that multiple memory leaks existed in the XFSimplementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this tocause a denial of service (memory consumption). (CVE-2016-9685) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: linux-image-3.2.0-121-powerpc-smp 3.2.0-121.164 linux-image-powerpc-smp 3.2.0.121.136 linux-image-3.2.0-121-highbank 3.2.0-121.164 linux-image-3.2.0-121-powerpc64-smp 3.2.0-121.164 linux-image-3.2.0-121-virtual 3.2.0-121.164 linux-image-3.2.0-121-generic 3.2.0-121.164 linux-image-3.2.0-121-generic-pae 3.2.0-121.164 linux-image-generic-pae 3.2.0.121.136 linux-image-highbank 3.2.0.121.136 linux-image-3.2.0-121-omap [ 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-13743","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\/13743","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=13743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13744,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions\/13744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}linux vulnerabilities<\/h3>\n
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Summary<\/h3>\n
Software description<\/h3>\n
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\n – Linux kernel<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDetails<\/h3>\n
kernel improperly handled validation of incoming data. A remote attacker
could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-9555<\/a>)<\/p>\n
implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to
cause a denial of service (memory consumption). (CVE-2016-9685<\/a>)<\/p>\nUpdate instructions<\/h3>\n
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\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