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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: 1) by hereweareagain on Friday May 11 2018, @03:51PM

    by hereweareagain (6590) on Friday May 11 2018, @03:51PM (#678431) Homepage

    This came out on May 2 and I had already updated my kernel, but thanks for the warning

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