=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1994-1
October 22, 2013

linux-lts-quantal vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

The system could be made to expose sensitive information to a local user.

Software Description:
- 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 LTS:
  linux-image-3.5.0-42-generic    3.5.0-42.65~precise1

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:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1994-1
  CVE-2013-2147

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-quantal/3.5.0-42.65~precise1


Ubuntu 1994-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerability

October 22, 2013
The system could be made to expose sensitive information to a local user.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: linux-image-3.5.0-42-generic 3.5.0-42.65~precise1 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

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1994-1

CVE-2013-2147

Severity
October 22, 2013

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-quantal/3.5.0-42.65~precise1

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