Canonical Patches Two Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Canonical announced that a new kernel update is available for its current long-term supported Ubuntu Linux operating system, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr).

These two security flaws affect all the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) releases that run the Linux 3.13 kernel packages, including all of their derivatives. Please read the above notices because they affect other Linux OSes that run Linux kernel 3.13 as well. Canonical urges users to update their kernels as soon as possible.

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