On November 30, 2016, after publishing new kernel updates for all of its supported Ubuntu Linux releases, Canonical, through Luis Henriques, announced the availability of the second kernel live patch security update to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
If you’re using the Canonical Livepatch Service on your 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) machine, you can now the kernel packages using this rebootless technology. The latest update patches a total of four kernel vulnerabilities discovered recently by various hackers and security researchers.
The first security issue, CVE-2016-7042, was discovered by Ondrej Kozina in Linux kernel’s keyring interface as a buf… (read more)
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