Monthly Archives: December 2016

Redhat

RHSA-2016:2872-1: Moderate: sudo security update

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for sudo is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a
detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.
CVE-2016-7032, CVE-2016-7076

Redhat

RHSA-2016:2871-1: Important: bind security update

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced
Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Telco
Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives
a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.
CVE-2016-8864

Ubuntu

USN-3149-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3149-1

5th December, 2016

linux vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Software description

  • linux
    – Linux kernel

Details

Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the af_packet
implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use
this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or run arbitrary code with
administrative privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
linux-image-powerpc-smp

3.13.0.105.113
linux-image-powerpc-e500mc

3.13.0.105.113
linux-image-generic

3.13.0.105.113
linux-image-3.13.0-105-powerpc-smp

3.13.0-105.152
linux-image-3.13.0-105-generic-lpae

3.13.0-105.152
linux-image-3.13.0-105-powerpc64-smp

3.13.0-105.152
linux-image-3.13.0-105-powerpc-e500mc

3.13.0-105.152
linux-image-3.13.0-105-lowlatency

3.13.0-105.152
linux-image-powerpc-e500

3.13.0.105.113
linux-image-powerpc64-smp

3.13.0.105.113
linux-image-3.13.0-105-powerpc-e500

3.13.0-105.152
linux-image-generic-lpae

3.13.0.105.113
linux-image-lowlatency

3.13.0.105.113
linux-image-3.13.0-105-powerpc64-emb

3.13.0-105.152
linux-image-powerpc64-emb

3.13.0.105.113
linux-image-3.13.0-105-generic

3.13.0-105.152

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

CVE-2016-8655

Ubuntu

USN-3149-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3149-2

5th December, 2016

linux-lts-trusty vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

The system could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software description

  • linux-lts-trusty
    – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty for Precise

Details

USN-3149-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04
LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux
Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu
12.04 LTS.

Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the af_packet
implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use
this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or run arbitrary code with
administrative privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
linux-image-generic-lpae-lts-trusty

3.13.0.105.96
linux-image-3.13.0-105-generic

3.13.0-105.152~precise1
linux-image-generic-lts-trusty

3.13.0.105.96
linux-image-3.13.0-105-generic-lpae

3.13.0-105.152~precise1

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

CVE-2016-8655

Ubuntu

USN-3150-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3150-1

5th December, 2016

linux vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Software description

  • linux
    – Linux kernel

Details

Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the af_packet
implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use
this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or run arbitrary code with
administrative privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
linux-image-3.2.0-118-powerpc-smp

3.2.0-118.161
linux-image-powerpc-smp

3.2.0.118.133
linux-image-3.2.0-118-highbank

3.2.0-118.161
linux-image-3.2.0-118-powerpc64-smp

3.2.0-118.161
linux-image-3.2.0-118-virtual

3.2.0-118.161
linux-image-3.2.0-118-generic-pae

3.2.0-118.161
linux-image-3.2.0-118-generic

3.2.0-118.161
linux-image-generic-pae

3.2.0.118.133
linux-image-highbank

3.2.0.118.133
linux-image-3.2.0-118-omap

3.2.0-118.161
linux-image-virtual

3.2.0.118.133
linux-image-powerpc64-smp

3.2.0.118.133
linux-image-generic

3.2.0.118.133
linux-image-omap

3.2.0.118.133

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

CVE-2016-8655

Ubuntu

USN-3151-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3151-1

5th December, 2016

linux vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Software description

  • linux
    – Linux kernel

Details

Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the af_packet
implementation in the Linux kernel. A local unprivileged attacker could use
this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or run arbitrary code with
administrative privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
linux-image-powerpc-smp

4.4.0.53.56
linux-image-4.4.0-53-generic

4.4.0-53.74
linux-image-4.4.0-53-generic-lpae

4.4.0-53.74
linux-image-generic

4.4.0.53.56
linux-image-powerpc-e500mc

4.4.0.53.56
linux-image-lowlatency

4.4.0.53.56
linux-image-4.4.0-53-lowlatency

4.4.0-53.74
linux-image-4.4.0-53-powerpc-smp

4.4.0-53.74
linux-image-powerpc64-smp

4.4.0.53.56
linux-image-generic-lpae

4.4.0.53.56
linux-image-4.4.0-53-powerpc64-emb

4.4.0-53.74
linux-image-4.4.0-53-powerpc64-smp

4.4.0-53.74
linux-image-powerpc64-emb

4.4.0.53.56
linux-image-4.4.0-53-powerpc-e500mc

4.4.0-53.74

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

CVE-2016-8655