Canonical Outs Major Linux Kernel Update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to Patch 11 Flaws

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel used by Canonical’s Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system, affecting all of its derivatives, including Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, and Ubuntu Studio, as well as other third-party flavors based on them. A total of eleven security vulnerabilities were addressed in this major kernel update, seven of which are flaws (CVE-2018-10876, CVE-2018-10877, CVE-2018-10878, CVE-2018-10879, CVE-2018-10880, CVE-2018-10882, and CVE-2018-10883) discovered by Wen Xu in Linux kernel’s EXT4 filesystem implementation.