SECURITY

USN-3099-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3099-2 11th October, 2016 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Software description linux-lts-xenial – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Xenial for Trusty Details USN-3099-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the LinuxHardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu14.04 LTS. Vladimír Beneš discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEBGeneric Receive Offload (GRO) processing implementations in the Linuxkernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack corruption,leading to a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-7039) Marco Grassi discovered a use-after-free condition could occur in the TCPretransmit queue handling code in the Linux kernel. A local attacker coulduse [ more… ]

USN-3099-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3099-1 11th October, 2016 linux vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Software description linux – Linux kernel Details Vladimír Beneš discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEBGeneric Receive Offload (GRO) processing implementations in the Linuxkernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack corruption,leading to a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-7039) 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 s390 SCLP console driverfor the Linux kernel when handling ioctl()s. A local attacker could usethis [ more… ]

USN-3099-4: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3099-4 11th October, 2016 linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Software description linux-snapdragon – Linux kernel for Snapdragon Processors Details Vladimír Beneš discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEBGeneric Receive Offload (GRO) processing implementations in the Linuxkernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack corruption,leading to a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-7039) 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 Adaptec AAC RAID controllerdriver in the Linux kernel when handling [ more… ]

USN-3098-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3098-2 11th October, 2016 linux-lts-trusty 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-lts-trusty – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Trusty for Precise Details USN-3098-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the LinuxHardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu12.04 LTS. 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) Vladimír Beneš discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEBGeneric Receive Offload (GRO) processing implementations in the Linuxkernel, A remote attacker could use [ more… ]

USN-3098-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3098-1 11th October, 2016 linux vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Software description linux – Linux kernel Details Vladimír Beneš discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEBGeneric Receive Offload (GRO) processing implementations in the Linuxkernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack corruption,leading to a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-7039) 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 [ more… ]