USN-7522-1: Linux kernel (Azure, N-Series) vulnerabilities
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USN-7522-1: Linux kernel (Azure, N-Series) vulnerabilities
Packages
linux-azure-nvidia - Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems, N-Series
Details
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:
- RISC-V architecture;
- x86 architecture;
- Block layer subsystem;
- Compute Acceleration Framework;
- ACPI drivers;
- Drivers core;
- Ublk userspace block driver;
- Virtio block driver;
- Bluetooth drivers;
- DMA engine subsystem;
- GPU drivers;
- Microsoft Hyper-V drivers;
- Hardware monitoring drivers;
- IIO ADC drivers;
- IIO subsystem;
- InfiniBand drivers;
- Multiple devices driver;
- Media drivers;
- Microchip PCI driver;
- Network drivers;
- Mellanox network drivers;
- Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver;
- STMicroelectronics network drivers;
- PCI subsystem;
- Pin controllers subsystem;
- x86 platform drivers;
- Power supply drivers;
- SCSI subsystem;
- USB Gadget drivers;
- TDX Guest driver;
- AFS file system;
- BTRFS file system;
- Ceph distributed file system;
- EROFS file system;
- File systems infrastructure;
- Network file systems library;
- NILFS2 file system;
- Overlay file system;
- SMB network file system;
- VLANs driver;
- Memory management;
- LAPB network protocol;
- io_uring subsystem;
- BPF subsystem;
- Control group (cgroup);
- Tracing infrastructure;
- Workqueue subsystem;
- Bluetooth subsystem;
- Networking core;
- IPv4 networking;
- IPv6 networking;
- MAC80211 subsystem;
- Multipath TCP;
- Netfilter;
- NET/ROM layer;
- Packet sockets;
- RDS protocol;
- Network traffic control;
- SCTP protocol;
- SMC sockets;
- Wireless networking;
- SELinux security module;
- ALSA framework;
- SOF drivers
Update instructions
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu Release Package Version
24.04 noble - linux-image-6.8.0-1016-azure-nvidia – 6.8.0-1016.17
- linux-image-azure-nvidia – 6.8.0-1016.17
