USN-3098-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities
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… ]