[Ksplice][Ubuntu 10.04 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (USN-2233-1)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: USN-2233-1 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2014-3153

Systems running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-2233-1.

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-2014-3153: Local privilege escalation in futex requeueing.

Invalid parameters to the futex() syscall may break assumptions made in
the kernel and would leave dangling pointers that could be exploited
to gain root privileges.

SUPPORT

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