[Ksplice][Ubuntu 10.04 Updates] New updates available via Ksplice (USN-2583-1)

[Oracle Ksplice]

Synopsis: USN-2583-1 can now be patched using Ksplice
CVEs: CVE-2015-3339

Systems running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid can now use Ksplice to patch
against the latest Ubuntu Security Notice, USN-2583-1.

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-2015-3339: Privilege escalation due to race condition between execve and chown.

The execve() syscall can race with inode attribute changes made by chown().
This race condition could result in execve() setting uid/gid to the new
owner, leading to privilege escalation.

SUPPORT

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