USN-1736-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• linux - Linux kernel

Details

Suleiman Souhlal, Salman Qazi, Aaron Durbin and Michael Davidson discovered
a race condition in the Linux kernel's ptrace syscall. An unprivileged
local attacker could exploit this flaw to run programs as an administrator.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 10.04

• linux-image-2.6.32-45-generic - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-powerpc-smp - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-ia64 - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-lpia - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-preempt - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-sparc64-smp - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-virtual - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-sparc64 - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-generic-pae - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-server - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-powerpc - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-386 - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-powerpc64-smp - 2.6.32-45.104
• linux-image-2.6.32-45-versatile - 2.6.32-45.104

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2013-0871

Related notices

• USN-1741-1: linux-image-3.2.0-38-generic-pae, linux-image-3.2.0-38-virtual, linux-image-3.2.0-38-generic, linux, linux-image-3.2.0-38-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.2.0-38-powerpc-smp, linux-image-3.2.0-38-omap, linux-image-3.2.0-38-highbank
• USN-1739-1: linux-image-3.0.0-31-generic-pae, linux-image-3.0.0-31-powerpc, linux-image-3.0.0-31-omap, linux-image-3.0.0-31-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.0.0-31-virtual, linux-image-3.0.0-31-server, linux-image-3.0.0-31-generic, linux, linux-image-3.0.0-31-powerpc-smp
• USN-1743-1: linux-image-3.5.0-25-generic, linux-lts-quantal
• USN-1740-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.0.0-1221-omap4
• USN-1745-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.5.0-220-omap4
• USN-1742-1: linux-ti-omap4, linux-image-3.2.0-1426-omap4
• USN-1738-1: linux-image-3.0.0-31-generic-pae, linux-image-3.0.0-31-virtual, linux-image-3.0.0-31-server, linux-lts-backport-oneiric, linux-image-3.0.0-31-generic
• USN-1744-1: linux-image-3.5.0-25-highbank, linux-image-3.5.0-25-generic, linux-image-3.5.0-25-powerpc-smp, linux, linux-image-3.5.0-25-powerpc64-smp, linux-image-3.5.0-25-omap
• USN-1737-1: linux-ec2, linux-image-2.6.32-350-ec2