USN-3468-3: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities
USN-3468-3: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3468-3 31st October, 2017 linux-gcp vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Software description linux-gcp – Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems Details It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did notproperly bound guest IRQs. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this tocause a denial of service (host system crash). (CVE-2017-1000252) It was discovered that the Flash-Friendly File System (f2fs) implementationin the Linux kernel did not properly validate superblock metadata. A localattacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) orpossibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-10663) Anthony Perard discovered that the Xen virtual block driver did notproperly initialize some data structures before passing [ more… ]