[Ksplice][Ubuntu 10.04 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (2.6.32-41.91)

[Samson Yeung]

Synopsis: 2.6.32-41.91 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2012-2313 CVE-2012-2319

Systems running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Ubuntu kernel update, 2.6.32-41.91.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid
install these updates.

On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf,
these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to
take any action.

Alternatively, you can install these updates by running:

# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y


DESCRIPTION

* CVE-2012-2313: Privilege escalation in the dl2k NIC.

The D-LINK dl2k network card was missing permission checks in the ioctl
handling function. This would allow an unprivileged user to reconfigure
the low-level link device and trigger a denial-of-service.


* CVE-2012-2319: Buffer overflow mounting corrupted hfs filesystem.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the hfsplus_bnode_read() function in
the HFS+ file system implementation.  This could lead to a denial of
service if a user browsed a specially-crafted HFS+ file system, for
example, by running "ls".

SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.