USN-3207-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities<\/p>\n
21st 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 USN-3207-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the block Dmitry Vyukov discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Andrey Konovalov discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the DCCP 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-2016-7910<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2016-7911<\/a>, <\/p>\n CVE-2017-6074<\/a><\/p>\n Source: USN-3207-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-3207-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3207-2 21st February, 2017 linux-lts-trusty 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-lts-trusty – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty for Precise Details USN-3207-1 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 use-after-free vulnerability existed in the blockdevice layer of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to causea denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain administrativeprivileges. (CVE-2016-7910) Dmitry Vyukov discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in thesys_ioprio_get() function in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could usethis to cause a denial of service (system crash) [ 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-14159","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\/14159","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=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14160,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/14160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities<\/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
device layer of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause
a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain administrative
privileges. (CVE-2016-7910<\/a>)<\/p>\n
sys_ioprio_get() function in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use
this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain
administrative privileges. (CVE-2016-7911<\/a>)<\/p>\n
implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to
cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain administrative
privileges. (CVE-2017-6074<\/a>)<\/p>\nUpdate instructions<\/h3>\n
\npackage version:<\/p>\n\n
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\n 3.13.0.110.101<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 3.13.0-110.157~precise1<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 3.13.0.110.101<\/a>
\n <\/span>\n <\/dd>\n
\n
\n 3.13.0-110.157~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