USN-2442-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• linux-ec2 - Linux kernel for EC2

Details

An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered that could leak the
high 16 bits of the kernel stack address on 32-bit Kernel Virtual Machine
(KVM) paravirt guests. A user in the guest OS could exploit this leak to
obtain information that could potentially be used to aid in attacking the
kernel. (CVE-2014-8134)

A flaw in the handling of malformed ASCONF chunks by SCTP (Stream Control
Transmission Protocol) implementation in the Linux kernel was discovered. A
remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service
(system crash). (CVE-2014-3673)

A flaw in the handling of duplicate ASCONF chunks by SCTP (Stream Control
Transmission Protocol) implementation in the Linux kernel was discovered. A
remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service
(panic). (CVE-2014-3687)

It was discovered that excessive queuing by SCTP (Stream Control
Transmission Protocol) implementation in the Linux kernel can cause memory
pressure. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2014-3688)

A null pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the the Linux kernel's
SCTP implementation when ASCONF is used. A remote attacker could exploit
this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a malformed INIT
chunk. (CVE-2014-7841)

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)

A stack buffer overflow was discovered in the ioctl command handling for
the Technotrend/Hauppauge USB DEC devices driver. A local user could
exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly
gain privileges. (CVE-2014-8884)

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle
faults associated with the Stack Segment (SS) register on the x86
architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of
service (panic). (CVE-2014-9090)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 10.04

• linux-image-2.6.32-374-ec2 - 2.6.32-374.91

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-2014-3673
• CVE-2014-3687
• CVE-2014-3688
• CVE-2014-7841
• CVE-2014-8134
• CVE-2014-8709
• CVE-2014-8884
• CVE-2014-9090

Related notices

• USN-2445-1: linux-image-3.13.0-43-generic-lpae, linux-lts-trusty, linux-image-3.13.0-43-generic
• USN-2447-1: linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc64-emb, linux-image-3.16.0-28-lowlatency, linux-lts-utopic, linux-image-extra-3.16.0-28-generic, linux-image-3.16.0-28-generic-lpae, linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.16.0-28-generic, linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc-e500mc
• USN-2417-1: linux-image-3.2.0-72-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.2.0-72-virtual, linux-image-3.2.0-72-omap, linux-image-3.2.0-72-generic, linux, linux-image-3.2.0-72-highbank, linux-image-3.2.0-72-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.2.0-72-generic-pae
• USN-2448-1: linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc64-emb, linux-image-3.16.0-28-lowlatency, linux-image-3.16.0-28-generic-lpae, linux, linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.16.0-28-generic, linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.16.0-28-powerpc-e500mc
• USN-2446-1: linux-image-extra-3.13.0-43-generic, linux-image-3.13.0-43-generic, linux-image-3.13.0-43-generic-lpae, linux-image-3.13.0-43-powerpc-e500, linux, linux-image-3.13.0-43-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.13.0-43-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.13.0-43-powerpc-e500mc, linux-image-3.13.0-43-powerpc64-emb, linux-image-3.13.0-43-lowlatency
• USN-2441-1: linux-image-2.6.32-70-ia64, linux-image-2.6.32-70-powerpc, linux-image-2.6.32-70-powerpc-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-70-virtual, linux-image-2.6.32-70-generic, linux-image-2.6.32-70-preempt, linux-image-2.6.32-70-sparc64, linux, linux-image-2.6.32-70-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-70-386, linux-image-2.6.32-70-sparc64-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-70-lpia, linux-image-2.6.32-70-server, linux-image-2.6.32-70-versatile, linux-image-2.6.32-70-generic-pae
• USN-2418-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.2.0-1456-omap4
• USN-2468-1: linux-image-3.16.0-29-generic-lpae, linux-image-3.16.0-29-powerpc64-emb, linux-image-3.16.0-29-generic, linux, linux-image-3.16.0-29-powerpc-e500mc, linux-image-3.16.0-29-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.16.0-29-lowlatency, linux-image-3.16.0-29-powerpc-smp
• USN-2467-1: linux-image-3.16.0-29-generic-lpae, linux-image-3.16.0-29-powerpc64-emb, linux-lts-utopic, linux-image-3.16.0-29-generic, linux-image-extra-3.16.0-29-generic, linux-image-3.16.0-29-powerpc-e500mc, linux-image-3.16.0-29-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.16.0-29-lowlatency, linux-image-3.16.0-29-powerpc-smp
• USN-2465-1: linux-lts-trusty, linux-image-3.13.0-44-generic-lpae, linux-image-3.13.0-44-generic
• USN-2443-1: linux-image-3.2.0-74-highbank, linux-image-3.2.0-74-generic-pae, linux-image-3.2.0-74-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.2.0-74-generic, linux-image-3.2.0-74-omap, linux, linux-image-3.2.0-74-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.2.0-74-virtual
• USN-2466-1: linux-image-3.13.0-44-powerpc-e500, linux-image-3.13.0-44-generic-lpae, linux-image-3.13.0-44-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.13.0-44-lowlatency, linux-image-3.13.0-44-powerpc64-emb, linux-image-extra-3.13.0-44-generic, linux, linux-image-3.13.0-44-generic, linux-image-3.13.0-44-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.13.0-44-powerpc-e500mc
• USN-2444-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.2.0-1457-omap4
• USN-2464-1: linux-image-3.2.0-1458-omap4, linux-ti-omap4
• USN-2175-1: linux-image-3.5.0-49-generic, linux-lts-quantal
• USN-2177-1: linux-image-3.11.0-20-generic-lpae, linux-image-3.11.0-20-generic, linux-lts-saucy
• USN-2221-1: linux-image-3.2.0-63-highbank, linux-image-3.2.0-63-virtual, linux-image-3.2.0-63-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.2.0-63-generic-pae, linux-image-3.2.0-63-omap, linux-image-3.2.0-63-powerpc-smp, linux, linux-image-3.2.0-63-generic
• USN-2227-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.2.0-1446-omap4