Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1284-1

Please Install the Updated Packages.

David Black discovered that Update Manager incorrectly extracted the downloaded upgrade tarball before verifying its GPG signature. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be used to replace arbitrary files. (CVE-2011-3152) David Black discovered that Update Manager created a temporary directory in an insecure fashion. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to read the XAUTHORITY file of the user performing the upgrade. (CVE-2011-3154) This update also adds a hotfix to Update Notifier to handle cases where the upgrade is being performed from CD media.

update-manager on Ubuntu 11.04 , Ubuntu 10.10 , Ubuntu 10.04 LTS , Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2011-November/001502.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25