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: ARM64 architecture; S390 architecture; x86 architecture; DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers; InfiniBand drivers; IOMMU subsystem; Multiple devices driver; Network drivers; Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; NVME drivers; TCM subsystem; Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem; Xen hypervisor drivers; AFS file system; File systems infrastructure; Network file systems library; Network file system (NFS) client; NTFS3 file system; OCFS2 file system; OrangeFS file system; SMB network file system; IPv4 networking; Sun RPC protocol; IPv6 networking; IP tunnels...
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:
DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers;
Multiple devices driver;
Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver;
Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem;
Xen hypervisor drivers;
File systems infrastructure;
Network file systems library;
Network file system (NFS) client;
OrangeFS file system;
SMB network file system;
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: ARM64 architecture; S390 architecture; x86 architecture; DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers; InfiniBand drivers; IOMMU subsystem; Multiple devices driver; Network drivers; Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; NVME drivers; TCM subsystem; Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem; Xen hypervisor drivers; AFS file system; File systems infrastructure; Network file systems library; Network file system (NFS) client; NTFS3 file system; OCFS2 file system; OrangeFS file system; SMB network file system; IPv4 networking; Sun RPC protocol; IPv6 networking; IP tunnels definitions; Netfilter; TCP network protocol; Locking primitives; 9P file system network protocol; B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol; Networking core; IFE protocol; RxRPC session sockets; Network traffic control; SCTP protocol; SMC sockets; TIPC protocol; XFRM subsystem
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:
DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers;
Multiple devices driver;
Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver;
Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem;
Xen hypervisor drivers;
File systems infrastructure;
Network file systems library;
Network file system (NFS) client;
OrangeFS file system;
SMB network file system;
IP tunnels definitions;
TCP network protocol;
9P file system network protocol;
B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol;
RxRPC session sockets;
Network traffic control;
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.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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