I have been informed about the CVE-2022-0847 vulnerability. I'm wondering what versions of Ubuntu are affected by such a bug.
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I can confirm that kernel versions 5.13.0-28-generic and 5.11.0-40-generic for Ubuntu 20.04 are affected.
Given the incredible severity of this CVE, I did a lot of research on this.
Yes, this has been patched and pushed (as of 2022-03-08) for 21.10 (Impish).
Update 2022-03-09:
A comment below (@fuzzydrawings), mentioned the fix was pushed to 20.04 (focal) as of 2022-03-08. I believe various versions of 18.04 (bionic) have been released as well. I have linked the commits for impish and bionic below.
Also:
can be helpful, and is the notice for this CVE. However it only mentions 21.10 and 20.04 LTS. I linked below to the commits for bionic that contain the fix.
21.10 (impish)
After I did a sudo apt update, I did asudo apt list --upgradable to see if the kernel was updated.
It was.
The important line is here:linux-generic/impish-updates 5.13.0.35.44 amd64
Googling for the answer didn't come up with any clear answers. So I went to the ubuntu git repository at:
(this URL is specific to impish)
You can then see that this version contains the patch from Max Kellerman:
The following commit tags it:
linux (5.13.0-35.40) impish; urgency=medium
20.04 (focal)
the two kernel versions have received the update (5.4 and 5.13 HWE). Here are the commits:
18.04 (bionic)
the two kernel versions have received the update (4.15 and 5.4 HWE). Here are the commits:
6It's very likely that all Ubuntu releases with 5.8 kernels or later are currently affected as no patches for this have been released at this moment.
2All ubuntu versions without patch linux-generic-hwe-20.04 from version 5.13.0.35.40~20.04.20 are affected by CVE-2022-0847
How to check it:
- run terminal
- run command:
apt list --installed | grep linux-generic
If you see message (command run on ubuntu 20.04) linux-generic-hwe-20.04/focal-updates,focal-security,now 5.13.0.35.40~20.04.20 amd64 [installed] it means, that patch is applied and is't affect on your ubuntu.
How to install it:
- run terminal
- run command:
sudo apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-20.04 - confirm it by pressing Y key.