{"id":45684,"date":"2023-07-27T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/files\/173784\/USN-6255-1.txt"},"modified":"2023-08-02T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T09:03:23","slug":"ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6255-1-linux-kernel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6255-1-linux-kernel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6255-1 Linux kernel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================<br \/>\nUbuntu Security Notice USN-6255-1<br \/>\nJuly 26, 2023<\/p>\n<p>linux-intel-iotg-5.15 vulnerabilities<br \/>\n==========================================================================<\/p>\n<p>A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ubuntu 20.04 LTS<\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.<\/p>\n<p>Software Description:<br \/>\n&#8211; linux-intel-iotg-5.15: Linux kernel for Intel IoT platforms<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that the IP-VLAN network driver for the Linux kernel did<br \/>\nnot properly initialize memory in some situations, leading to an out-of-<br \/>\nbounds write vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of<br \/>\nservice (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-3090)<\/p>\n<p>Mingi Cho discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did<br \/>\nnot properly validate the status of a nft chain while performing a lookup<br \/>\nby id, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. An attacker could use<br \/>\nthis to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute<br \/>\narbitrary code. (CVE-2023-31248)<\/p>\n<p>Querijn Voet discovered that a race condition existed in the io_uring<br \/>\nsubsystem in the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A<br \/>\nlocal attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash)<br \/>\nor possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-3389)<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not<br \/>\nproperly handle some error conditions, leading to a use-after-free<br \/>\nvulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service<br \/>\n(system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-3390)<\/p>\n<p>Lin Ma discovered that a race condition existed in the MCTP implementation<br \/>\nin the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A<br \/>\nprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system<br \/>\ncrash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-3439)<\/p>\n<p>Tanguy Dubroca discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel<br \/>\ndid not properly handle certain pointer data type, leading to an out-of-<br \/>\nbounds write vulnerability. A privileged attacker could use this to cause a<br \/>\ndenial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.<br \/>\n(CVE-2023-35001)<\/p>\n<p>Update instructions:<\/p>\n<p>The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following<br \/>\npackage versions:<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:<br \/>\nlinux-image-5.15.0-1036-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1036.41~20.04.1<br \/>\nlinux-image-intel 5.15.0.1036.41~20.04.26<br \/>\nlinux-image-intel-iotg 5.15.0.1036.41~20.04.26<\/p>\n<p>After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make<br \/>\nall the necessary changes.<\/p>\n<p>ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have<br \/>\nbeen given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and<br \/>\nreinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed.<br \/>\nUnless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages<br \/>\n(e.g. linux-generic, linux-generic-lts-RELEASE, linux-virtual,<br \/>\nlinux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform<br \/>\nthis as well.<\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-6255-1<br \/>\nCVE-2023-3090, CVE-2023-31248, CVE-2023-3389, CVE-2023-3390,<br \/>\nCVE-2023-3439, CVE-2023-35001<\/p>\n<p>Package Information:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/linux-intel-iotg-5.15\/5.15.0-1036.41~20.04.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6255-1 July 26, 2023 linux-intel-iotg-5.15 vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: &#8211; Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Software Description: &#8211; linux-intel-iotg-5.15: Linux kernel for Intel IoT platforms Details: It was discovered that the IP-VLAN network driver &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45961,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45684\/revisions\/45961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}