Canonical released today a new Linux kernel update for Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) HWE (Hardware Enablement) systems to address a security issue.Coming a few days after the last kernel update released earlier this week, which included mitigations for the Spectre security vulnerability that puts billions of devices at risk of attacks, today's security update addresses a logic error in Linux kernel's x86-64 syscall entry implementation, discovered by Jay Vosburgh.
According to the security advisory published today by Canonica, it would appear that the security issue has been introduced by the mitigations for the Spectre hardware ... (read more)
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