USN-1994-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerability
22 October 2013
The system could be made to expose sensitive information to a local user.
Releases
Packages
- linux-lts-quantal - Linux hardware enablement kernel from Quantal
Details
Dan Carpenter discovered an information leak in the HP Smart Array and
Compaq SMART2 disk-array driver in the Linux kernel. A local user could
exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory.
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-2023-1: linux, linux-image-3.8.0-33-generic
- USN-2020-1: linux-image-3.8.0-33-generic, linux-lts-raring
- USN-2017-1: linux-image-3.2.0-56-virtual, linux-image-3.2.0-56-highbank, linux-image-3.2.0-56-generic-pae, linux-image-3.2.0-56-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.2.0-56-omap, linux-image-3.2.0-56-powerpc64-smp, linux, linux-image-3.2.0-56-generic
- USN-1999-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.5.0-234-omap4
- USN-2018-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.2.0-1440-omap4
- USN-1996-1: linux-image-3.5.0-42-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.5.0-42-highbank, linux-image-3.5.0-42-generic, linux-image-3.5.0-42-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.5.0-42-omap, linux
- USN-2016-1: linux-image-2.6.32-358-ec2, linux-ec2
- USN-2015-1: linux-image-2.6.32-53-generic, linux-image-2.6.32-53-ia64, linux-image-2.6.32-53-386, linux-image-2.6.32-53-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-53-server, linux-image-2.6.32-53-versatile, linux-image-2.6.32-53-preempt, linux-image-2.6.32-53-sparc64-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-53-virtual, linux-image-2.6.32-53-generic-pae, linux-image-2.6.32-53-powerpc, linux-image-2.6.32-53-sparc64, linux, linux-image-2.6.32-53-lpia, linux-image-2.6.32-53-powerpc-smp
- USN-2050-1: linux-image-3.5.0-236-omap4, linux-ti-omap4
- USN-1997-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.5.0-234-omap4