6.9 - USN-2283-1

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:

Sasha Levin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel's point-to-point protocol (PPP) when used with the Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP). A local user could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2014-4943)

Michael S. Tsirkin discovered an information leak in the Linux kernel's segmentation of skbs when using the zerocopy feature of vhost-net. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. (CVE-2014-0131)

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or OOPS). (CVE-2014-4608)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
linux-image-3.2.0-67-generic 3.2.0-67.101
linux-image-3.2.0-67-generic-pae 3.2.0-67.101
linux-image-3.2.0-67-highbank 3.2.0-67.101
linux-image-3.2.0-67-omap 3.2.0-67.101
linux-image-3.2.0-67-powerpc-smp 3.2.0-67.101
linux-image-3.2.0-67-powerpc64-smp 3.2.0-67.101
linux-image-3.2.0-67-virtual 3.2.0-67.101

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-2283-1
CVE-2014-0131, CVE-2014-4608, CVE-2014-4943

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.2.0-67.101