Canonical Outs Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 16.04 and 14.04 to Fix Stack Clash

Canonical's Benjamin M. Romer announced that a new kernel livepatch is now available for users of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating systems using the service, addressing the recently disclosed "Stack Clash" vulnerability.

As reported this week, Canonical already managed to update the kernel packages of all of its supported Ubuntu Linux releases, including Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), and Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) patching multiple security flaws, including CVE-2017-1000364.

We also reported that Canonical released a kernel update for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Pre...