Ubuntu Security Advisory USN-6923-2: Kernel Vulnerabilities Fixed
Summary
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Software Description: - linux-ibm: Linux kernel for IBM cloud systems - linux-raspi: Linux kernel for Raspberry Pi systems - linux-aws-5.15: Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems - linux-ibm-5.15: Linux kernel for IBM cloud systems 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 s...
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The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-image-5.15.0-1059-ibm 5.15.0-1059.62 linux-image-5.15.0-1059-raspi 5.15.0-1059.62 linux-image-ibm 5.15.0.1059.55 linux-image-raspi 5.15.0.1059.57 linux-image-raspi-nolpae 5.15.0.1059.57 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-image-5.15.0-1059-ibm 5.15.0-1059.62~20.04.1 linux-image-5.15.0-1066-aws 5.15.0-1066.72~20.04.1 linux-image-aws 5.15.0.1066.72~20.04.1 linux-image-ibm 5.15.0.1059.62~20.04.1 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-6923-2
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6923-1
CVE-2023-52752, CVE-2024-25742, CVE-2024-26886, CVE-2024-26952,
CVE-2024-27017, CVE-2024-36016
Package Information
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ibm/5.15.0-1059.62 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-raspi/5.15.0-1059.62 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-aws-5.15/5.15.0-1066.72~20.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ibm-5.15/5.15.0-1059.62~20.04.1