Canonical Outs New Kernel Security Updates for All Supported Ubuntu Releases

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Marius Nestor
Nov 19, 2018

Canonical released new Linux kernel security updates for all supported Ubuntu releases to address various issue discovered by researchers lately in the upstream Linux kernel packages corresponding to the respective Ubuntu version. Available for Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish), Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), and Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Precise Pangolin) on 32-bit, 64-bit, Raspbbery Pi 2, AWS (Amazon Web Services), GCP (Google Cloud Platform), and cloud environments, the new Linux kernel security updates fix multiple issues that might put your computer and data at risk.

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Marius Nestor

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