USN-3312-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities
USN-3312-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3312-2 6th June, 2017 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 Linux kernel. Software description linux-lts-xenial – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Xenial for Trusty Details USN-3312-1 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. It was discovered that the netfilter netlink implementation in the Linuxkernel did not properly validate batch messages. A local attacker with theCAP_NET_ADMIN capability could use this to expose sensitive information orcause a denial of service. (CVE-2016-7917) Qian Zhang discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the tipc_msg_build()function in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use to cause a denialof [ more… ]