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Linux kernel vulnerability

Description

## Releases * Ubuntu 12.04 ## Packages * linux \- Linux kernel * linux-lts-trusty \- Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty for Precise ESM Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Österlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Giorgi Maisuradze, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, and Jo Van Bulck discovered that Intel processors using Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) could expose memory contents previously stored in microarchitectural buffers to a malicious process that is executing on the same CPU core. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information.


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-server 3.2.0.144.159
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-3.13.0-175-generic-lpae 3.13.0-175.226~12.04.1
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-3.2.0-144-generic-pae 3.2.0-144.191
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-3.13.0-175-generic 3.13.0-175.226~12.04.1
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-generic 3.2.0.144.159
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-3.13.0-175-lowlatency 3.13.0-175.226~12.04.1
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-3.2.0-144-virtual 3.2.0-144.191
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-generic-lpae-lts-trusty 3.13.0.175.163
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-virtual 3.2.0.144.159
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-generic-lts-trusty 3.13.0.175.163
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-generic-pae 3.2.0.144.159
Ubuntu 12.04 linux-image-3.2.0-144-generic 3.2.0-144.191

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