USN-7428-2: Linux kernel (FIPS) vulnerabilities

9 April 2025

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

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Releases

Packages

  • linux-aws-fips - Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems with FIPS
  • linux-azure-fips - Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems with FIPS
  • linux-fips - Linux kernel with FIPS
  • linux-gcp-fips - Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems with FIPS

Details

Demi Marie Obenour and Simon Gaiser discovered that several Xen para-
virtualization device frontends did not properly restrict the access rights
of device backends. An attacker could possibly use a malicious Xen backend
to gain access to memory pages of a guest VM or cause a denial of service
in the guest. (CVE-2022-23041)

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:

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04

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

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.

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