Critical Linux Kernel Updates for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: Enhance System Security
Summary
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Software Description: - linux-lowlatency: Linux low latency kernel Details: Benedict Schlüter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious #VC interrupts and compromise the security guarantees of AMD SEV-SNP. This flaw is known as WeSee. A local attacker in control of the hypervisor could use this to expose sensitive information or possibly execute arbitrary code in the trusted execution environment. (CVE-2024-25742) Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - DMA engine subsystem; - HID subsystem; - I2C subsystem; - PHY drivers; - TTY drivers; - IPv4 networking; (CVE-2024-3...
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The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-image-6.8.0-39-lowlatency 6.8.0-39.39.1 linux-image-6.8.0-39-lowlatency-64k 6.8.0-39.39.1 linux-image-lowlatency 6.8.0-39.39.1 linux-image-lowlatency-64k 6.8.0-39.39.1 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
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6921-2
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6921-1
CVE-2024-25742, CVE-2024-35984, CVE-2024-35990, CVE-2024-35992,
CVE-2024-35997, CVE-2024-36008, CVE-2024-36016
Package Information
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lowlatency/6.8.0-39.39.1