USN-7325-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

USN-7325-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
7 March 2025

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Releases

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Packages
linux-nvidia - Linux kernel for NVIDIA systems

Details
Attila Szász discovered that the HFS+ file system implementation in the
Linux Kernel contained a heap overflow vulnerability. An attacker could use
a specially crafted file system image that, when mounted, could cause a
denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2025-0927)

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:

Media drivers;
(CVE-2024-53104)

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

Ubuntu 24.04

• linux-image-6.8.0-1023-nvidia - 6.8.0-1023.26
• linux-image-6.8.0-1023-nvidia-64k - 6.8.0-1023.26
• linux-image-nvidia - 6.8.0-1023.26
• linux-image-nvidia-64k - 6.8.0-1023.26
  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.