linux vulnerability

30 November 2012

linux vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Summary

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Software Description

• linux - Linux kernel

Details

Rodrigo Freire discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel’s TCP illinois congestion control algorithm. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

linux-image-2.6.24-32-386 - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-generic - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-hppa32 - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-hppa64 - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-itanium - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-lpia - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-lpiacompat - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-mckinley - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-openvz - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-powerpc - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-powerpc-smp - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-powerpc64-smp - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-rt - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-server - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-sparc64 - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-sparc64-smp - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-virtual - 2.6.24-32.106

linux-image-2.6.24-32-xen - 2.6.24-32.106

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2012-4565