USN-4135-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
USN-4135-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-lts-trusty, linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Software Description linux – Linux kernel linux-aws – Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems linux-azure – Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems linux-lts-xenial – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Xenial for Trusty linux-lts-trusty – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty for Precise ESM Details Peter Pi discovered a buffer overflow in the virtio network backend (vhost_net) implementation in the Linux kernel. An attacker in a guest may be able to use this to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code in the host OS. (CVE-2019-14835) It was discovered that the Linux kernel on PowerPC [ more… ]