USN-3469-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
USN-3469-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3469-1 31st October, 2017 linux, linux-aws, linux-gke, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, 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 Linux kernel. Software description linux – Linux kernel linux-aws – Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems linux-gke – Linux kernel for Google Container Engine (GKE) systems linux-kvm – Linux kernel for cloud environments linux-raspi2 – Linux kernel for Raspberry Pi 2 linux-snapdragon – Linux kernel for Snapdragon processors Details Anthony Perard discovered that the Xen virtual block driver did notproperly initialize some data structures before passing them to user space.A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitiveinformation from the host OS or other guest VMs. (CVE-2017-10911) Bo Zhang discovered that the netlink wireless [ more… ]