USN-7522-1: Linux kernel (Azure, N-Series) vulnerabilities

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