USN-1916-1: Linux kernel (Raring HWE) vulnerability
29 July 2013
The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.
Releases
Packages
- linux-lts-raring - Linux hardware enablement kernel from Raring
Details
An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when inotify is used
to monitor the /dev/ptmx device. A local user could exploit this flaw to
discover keystroke timing and potentially discover sensitive information
like password length.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04
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
Related notices
- USN-1878-1: linux-image-3.2.0-48-generic, linux-image-3.2.0-48-highbank, linux-image-3.2.0-48-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.2.0-48-virtual, linux-image-3.2.0-48-omap, linux, linux-image-3.2.0-48-generic-pae, linux-image-3.2.0-48-powerpc-smp
- USN-2129-1: linux-ec2, linux-image-2.6.32-362-ec2
- USN-1883-1: linux-image-3.5.0-226-omap4, linux-ti-omap4
- USN-2128-1: linux-image-2.6.32-57-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-57-virtual, linux-image-2.6.32-57-lpia, linux-image-2.6.32-57-386, linux-image-2.6.32-57-server, linux-image-2.6.32-57-powerpc-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-57-ia64, linux-image-2.6.32-57-generic-pae, linux-image-2.6.32-57-sparc64, linux-image-2.6.32-57-powerpc, linux-image-2.6.32-57-preempt, linux-image-2.6.32-57-versatile, linux-image-2.6.32-57-sparc64-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-57-generic, linux
- USN-1880-1: linux-lts-quantal, linux-image-3.5.0-34-generic
- USN-1879-1: linux-image-3.2.0-1433-omap4, linux-ti-omap4
- USN-1881-1: linux-image-3.5.0-34-highbank, linux-image-3.5.0-34-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.5.0-34-omap, linux-image-3.5.0-34-powerpc64-smp, linux, linux-image-3.5.0-34-generic
- USN-1882-1: linux-image-3.5.0-226-omap4, linux-ti-omap4