2.1 - USN-1997-1

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.10

Summary:

The system could be made to expose sensitive information to a local user.

Software Description: - linux-ti-omap4: Linux kernel for OMAP4

Details:

Dan Carpenter discovered an information leak in the HP Smart Array and Compaq SMART2 disk-array driver in the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
linux-image-3.5.0-234-omap4 3.5.0-234.50

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:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1997-1
CVE-2013-2147

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ti-omap4/3.5.0-234.50