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Canonical Releases New Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS & Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

posted by martyb on Friday May 11 2018, @01:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the improved-security-plus-continued-impressive-uptime dept.

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Softpedia reports

The patch addresses a total of nine security vulnerabilities

[...] All these flaws could [allow] local attackers to either crash the system or execute arbitrary code, bypass intended access restrictions to the connection tracking helpers list, as well as to inappropriately modify the system-wide operating system fingerprint list. Canonical urges all Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS users using the Canonical Livepatch to update their system immediately. A restart is not required when updating the kernel [using the] live patch.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @05:48AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11 2018, @05:48AM (#678275)

    waiting for the M$ buyout

  • (Score: 1) by DECbot on Friday May 11 2018, @05:43PM

    by DECbot (832) on Friday May 11 2018, @05:43PM (#678505) Journal

    I always thought it was Red Hat who was going to be bought out, but you might be on to something. Ubuntu makes a better platform for a Microsoft to bolt its crapware onto for the point and click crowd and Ubuntu's server customer base is closer to Microsoft's target base. Likewise, there will be less nerd rage if Ubuntu is bought over Red Hat. Ubuntu is just another Debian derivative while Red Hat has the keys to RHEL and Fedora--which influences many derivatives as well as things like pulse and systemd. If Conacle is bought, nerd rage on the loss of the easy intro to Linux desktop distribution. If Red Hat is bought, then core Linux is tainted. (Okay, technically no, but the world would be on the brink of ending.)

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