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USN-3170-2: Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi 2) vulnerabilities

11 January 2017

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

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Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ipv6 icmp implementation in the Linux
kernel did not properly check data structures on send. A remote attacker
could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-9919)

Andrey Konovalov discovered that signed integer overflows existed in the
setsockopt() system call when handling the SO_SNDBUFFORCE and
SO_RCVBUFFORCE options. A local attacker with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability
could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory
corruption). (CVE-2016-9793)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.10

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

Related notices

  • USN-3169-3: linux-image-4.4.0-1040-raspi2, linux-raspi2
  • USN-3168-2: linux-image-generic-lts-trusty, linux-image-generic-lpae-lts-trusty, linux-image-3.13.0-107-generic, linux-image-3.13.0-107-generic-lpae, linux-lts-trusty
  • USN-3168-1: linux-image-3.13.0-107-powerpc-e500mc, linux-image-3.13.0-107-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.13.0-107-powerpc-e500, linux-image-3.13.0-107-lowlatency, linux, linux-image-extra-3.13.0-107-generic, linux-image-3.13.0-107-powerpc64-emb, linux-image-3.13.0-107-generic, linux-image-3.13.0-107-generic-lpae, linux-image-3.13.0-107-powerpc64-smp
  • USN-3169-2: linux-image-4.4.0-59-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-extra-4.4.0-59-generic, linux-lts-xenial, linux-image-4.4.0-59-generic-lpae, linux-image-4.4.0-59-powerpc-e500mc, linux-image-4.4.0-59-powerpc64-emb, linux-image-4.4.0-59-lowlatency, linux-image-4.4.0-59-generic, linux-image-4.4.0-59-powerpc-smp
  • USN-3169-1: linux-image-4.4.0-59-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-extra-4.4.0-59-generic, linux-image-4.4.0-59-generic-lpae, linux-image-4.4.0-59-powerpc-e500mc, linux, linux-image-4.4.0-59-powerpc64-emb, linux-image-4.4.0-59-lowlatency, linux-image-4.4.0-59-generic, linux-image-4.4.0-59-powerpc-smp
  • USN-3169-4: linux-image-4.4.0-1044-snapdragon, linux-snapdragon
  • USN-3170-1: linux-image-4.8.0-34-generic, linux-image-4.8.0-34-powerpc-smp, linux-image-generic-lpae, linux-image-generic, linux-image-lowlatency, linux-image-powerpc64-emb, linux-image-powerpc-e500mc, linux, linux-image-4.8.0-34-lowlatency, linux-image-4.8.0-34-powerpc64-emb, linux-image-powerpc-smp, linux-image-4.8.0-34-generic-lpae, linux-image-4.8.0-34-powerpc-e500mc

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