USN-1992-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• linux - Linux kernel

Details

An information leak was discovered in the Linux kernel when reading
broadcast messages from the notify_policy interface of the IPSec
key_socket. A local user could exploit this flaw to examine potentially
sensitive information in kernel memory.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04

• linux-image-3.2.0-55-generic-pae - 3.2.0-55.85
• linux-image-3.2.0-55-powerpc64-smp - 3.2.0-55.85
• linux-image-3.2.0-55-highbank - 3.2.0-55.85
• linux-image-3.2.0-55-virtual - 3.2.0-55.85
• linux-image-3.2.0-55-generic - 3.2.0-55.85
• linux-image-3.2.0-55-powerpc-smp - 3.2.0-55.85
• linux-image-3.2.0-55-omap - 3.2.0-55.85

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-2013-2237

Related notices

• USN-1912-1: linux-image-2.6.32-50-generic-pae, linux, linux-image-2.6.32-50-sparc64, linux-image-2.6.32-50-powerpc, linux-image-2.6.32-50-virtual, linux-image-2.6.32-50-generic, linux-image-2.6.32-50-ia64, linux-image-2.6.32-50-386, linux-image-2.6.32-50-powerpc-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-50-preempt, linux-image-2.6.32-50-versatile, linux-image-2.6.32-50-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-50-lpia, linux-image-2.6.32-50-sparc64-smp, linux-image-2.6.32-50-server
• USN-1973-1: linux-image-3.5.0-233-omap4, linux-ti-omap4
• USN-1913-1: linux-image-2.6.32-355-ec2, linux-ec2
• USN-1993-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.2.0-1439-omap4
• USN-1970-1: linux-image-3.5.0-41-generic, linux-lts-quantal
• USN-1998-1: linux, linux-image-3.8.0-32-generic
• USN-1995-1: linux-image-3.8.0-32-generic, linux-lts-raring
• USN-1972-1: linux-image-3.5.0-41-omap, linux-image-3.5.0-41-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.5.0-41-powerpc64-smp, linux, linux-image-3.5.0-41-generic, linux-image-3.5.0-41-highbank