Executive Summary

Summary
Title Linux kernel vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3908-1 First vendor Publication 2019-03-12
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-03-12
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.4 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software Description: - linux: Linux kernel

Details:

Jann Horn discovered a race condition in the fork() system call in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to gain access to services that cache authorizations.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
linux-image-3.13.0-166-generic 3.13.0-166.216
linux-image-3.13.0-166-generic-lpae 3.13.0-166.216
linux-image-3.13.0-166-lowlatency 3.13.0-166.216
linux-image-3.13.0-166-powerpc-e500 3.13.0-166.216
linux-image-3.13.0-166-powerpc-e500mc 3.13.0-166.216
linux-image-3.13.0-166-powerpc-smp 3.13.0-166.216
linux-image-3.13.0-166-powerpc64-emb 3.13.0-166.216
linux-image-3.13.0-166-powerpc64-smp 3.13.0-166.216
linux-image-generic 3.13.0.166.177
linux-image-generic-lpae 3.13.0.166.177
linux-image-lowlatency 3.13.0.166.177
linux-image-powerpc-e500 3.13.0.166.177
linux-image-powerpc-e500mc 3.13.0.166.177
linux-image-powerpc-smp 3.13.0.166.177
linux-image-powerpc64-emb 3.13.0.166.177
linux-image-powerpc64-smp 3.13.0.166.177
linux-image-virtual 3.13.0.166.177

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. 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.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3908-1
CVE-2019-6133

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.13.0-166.216

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3908-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-362 Race Condition

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 5
Os 1
Os 2
Os 2
Os 2
Os 1
Os 1
Os 2

Alert History

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Date Informations
2019-03-14 21:22:04
  • Multiple Updates
2019-03-13 00:18:41
  • First insertion