USN-2175-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• linux-lts-quantal - Linux hardware enablement kernel from Quantal

Details

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) subsystem of the
Linux kernel. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary
code on the host OS. (CVE-2014-0049)

Al Viro discovered an error in how CIFS in the Linux kernel handles
uncached write operations. An unprivileged local user could exploit this
flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash), obtain sensitive
information from kernel memory, or possibly gain privileges.
(CVE-2014-0069)

Jouni Malinen reported a flaw in the handling of fragmentation in the
mac8Linux subsystem of the kernel. A remote attacker could exploit this
flaw to obtain potential sensitive cleartext information by reading
packets. (CVE-2014-8709)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04

• linux-image-3.5.0-49-generic - 3.5.0-49.73~precise1

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have
been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and
reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If
you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as
well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you
manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic,
linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically
perform this as well.

References

• CVE-2014-0049
• CVE-2014-0069
• CVE-2014-8709

Related notices

• USN-2180-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.5.0-241-omap4
• USN-2181-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.5.0-241-omap4
• USN-2179-1: linux-image-3.11.0-20-generic, linux, linux-image-3.11.0-20-generic-lpae
• USN-2177-1: linux-image-3.11.0-20-generic, linux-lts-saucy, linux-image-3.11.0-20-generic-lpae
• USN-2176-1: linux-image-3.8.0-39-generic, linux-lts-raring
• USN-2178-1: linux-image-3.5.0-49-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.5.0-49-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.5.0-49-omap, linux-image-3.5.0-49-highbank, linux-image-3.5.0-49-generic, linux
• USN-2221-1: linux-image-3.2.0-63-virtual, linux-image-3.2.0-63-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.2.0-63-generic, linux-image-3.2.0-63-generic-pae, linux-image-3.2.0-63-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.2.0-63-omap, linux, linux-image-3.2.0-63-highbank
• USN-2227-1: linux-image-3.2.0-1446-omap4, linux-ti-omap4
• USN-2442-1: linux-ec2, linux-image-2.6.32-374-ec2
• USN-2441-1: linux-image-2.6.32-70-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-70-virtual, linux-image-2.6.32-70-preempt, linux-image-2.6.32-70-ia64, linux-image-2.6.32-70-generic, linux-image-2.6.32-70-386, linux-image-2.6.32-70-versatile, linux-image-2.6.32-70-server, linux-image-2.6.32-70-sparc64-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-70-lpia, linux-image-2.6.32-70-sparc64, linux, linux-image-2.6.32-70-powerpc-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-70-generic-pae, linux-image-2.6.32-70-powerpc