USN-3097-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
USN-3097-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3097-1 10th October, 2016 linux vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Software description linux – Linux kernel Details Marco Grassi discovered a use-after-free condition could occur in the TCPretransmit queue handling code in the Linux kernel. A local attacker coulduse this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly executearbitrary code. (CVE-2016-6828) Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in theLinux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs ordisrupt system-call auditing. (CVE-2016-6136) Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the Adaptec AAC RAID controllerdriver in the Linux kernel when handling ioctl()s. A local attacker coulduse this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-6480) Update [ more… ]