1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-6921-2

USN-6921-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Publication date

30 July 2024

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

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Details

Benedict Schlüter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde
discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious #VC
interrupts and compromise the security guarantees of AMD SEV-SNP. This flaw
is known as WeSee. A local attacker in control of the hypervisor could use
this to expose sensitive information or possibly execute arbitrary code in
the trusted execution environment. (CVE-2024-25742)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

  • DMA engine subsystem;
  • HID subsystem;
  • I2C subsystem;
  • PHY drivers;
  • TTY drivers;
  • IPv4 networking

Benedict Schlüter, Supraja Sridhara, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde
discovered that an untrusted hypervisor could inject malicious #VC
interrupts and compromise the security guarantees of AMD SEV-SNP. This flaw
is known as WeSee. A local attacker in control of the hypervisor could use
this to expose sensitive information or possibly execute arbitrary code in
the trusted execution environment. (CVE-2024-25742)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

  • DMA engine subsystem;
  • HID subsystem;
  • I2C subsystem;
  • PHY drivers;
  • TTY drivers;
  • IPv4 networking

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-generic-lts-RELEASE, linux-virtual, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
24.04 noble linux-image-6.8.0-39-lowlatency –  6.8.0-39.39.1
linux-image-6.8.0-39-lowlatency-64k –  6.8.0-39.39.1
linux-image-lowlatency –  6.8.0-39.39.1
linux-image-lowlatency-64k –  6.8.0-39.39.1

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