Canonical Outs New Kernel Security Updates for All Supported Ubuntu Releases

On July 20, 2017, Canonical released new kernel updates for all supported Ubuntu Linux releases, including Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10, and Ubuntu 17.04, fixing up to fifteen security vulnerabilities.

According to the new security advisories published by Canonical, it would appear that the Linux 3.13 kernel packages of the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating system are the most affected, as the kernel update patches a total of fifteen security vulnerabilities discovered and patched upstream by various developers.

These include the inability of the Linux kernel to correctly initialize a Wake-on-Lan (WoL) data structure (CVE-2014-9900 - also affects Ubuntu 17.04) or to restrict access to /proc/iomem (CVE-2015-8944), both of them allowing a local attacker to expose sensitiv... (read more)

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