dirty cow und 12.04 LTS

[Nils Kassube]

Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> currently i'm updating my systems because of the dirty cow bug in the
> kernel. But i don't understand completely this document:
> http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-5195.h
> tml
> 
> I have a system with 12.04 LTS:
> 
> root at PC62470:~# uname -r
> 3.5.0-23-generic

> The kernel is 3.5.0-23-generic. But i don't find this kernel in this
> document. apt-get -V dist-upgrade likes to install:
> linux-image-generic-lts-quantal (3.5.0.23.30 => 3.5.0.54.59).

If I understand the linked document correctly, there is no fix for your 
kernel because it has reached EOL. The relevant lines are this:

Source: linux-lts-quantal (LP Ubuntu Debian)
[...]
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin):	ignored (end-of-life) 

Your options are either to install the linux-image-generic package with 
the default 12.04 kernel (3.2.0-113.155) or if you need a HWE version, 
you would need the linux-image-generic-lts-trusty package 
(3.13.0-100.147~precise1).


Nils