Advisory Published

USN-2415-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

First published: Tue Nov 25 2014(Updated: )

Don Bailey discovered a flaw in the LZO decompress algorithm used by the Linux kernel. An attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or OOPS). (CVE-2014-4608) Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel was not checking the CAP_SYS_ADMIN when remounting filesystems to read-only. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service (loss of writability). (CVE-2014-7975)

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-386<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-powerpc<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-powerpc64-smp<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-generic-pae<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-versatile<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-generic<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-sparc64<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-virtual<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-server<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-ia64<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-sparc64-smp<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-preempt<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-powerpc-smp<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04
All of
ubuntu/linux-image-2.6.32-68-lpia<2.6.32-68.135
2.6.32-68.135
=10.04

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