========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5206-1 January 05, 2022 linux-oem-5.14 vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator. Software Description: - linux-oem-5.14: Linux kernel for OEM systems Details: Nadav Amit discovered that the hugetlb implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform TLB flushes under certain conditions. A local attacker could use this to leak or alter data from other processes that use huge pages. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: linux-image-5.14.0-1013-oem 5.14.0-1013.13 linux-image-oem-20.04d 5.14.0.1013.13 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. References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5206-1 CVE-2021-4002 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-oem-5.14/5.14.0-1013.13