I read about the 64 bit kernel vulnerability in the linux kernel today (9/20) Link to article
I have an ubuntu server 10.04 and 8.04 in my organization. My question is could I just use the apt-get utility or the aptitude safe-upgrade to patch these kernels - but is the 64 bit kernel patch included in those updates I would download?
You should have gotten them through the updates... according to this they went out the 17th:
When wondering about these things, you can always check the changelog files for your installed kernels. For example, first make sure you're up to date:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Then you can check what happened in the latest kernel update:
$ cd $(ls -dtr /usr/share/doc/linux-image-* | tail -n1)
$ zcat changelog.Debian.gz | head -n10
linux (2.6.32-24.43) lucid-security; urgency=low
[ Upstream Kernel Changes ]
* x86-64, compat: Test %rax for the syscall number, not %eax
- CVE-2010-3301
* x86-64, compat: Retruncate rax after ia32 syscall entry tracing
- CVE-2010-3301
* compat: Make compat_alloc_user_space() incorporate the access_ok()
- CVE-2010-3081
Then you can compare what kernel you have running against the latest changelog, and reboot if you haven't already:
$ cat /proc/version_signature
Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-server 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
