USN-3168-1 linux vulnerabilities

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize the Code Segment CS in certain error cases. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2016-9756 Andrey Konovalov discovered that signed integer overflows...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9806

Race condition in the netlinkdump function in net/netlink/afnetlink.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service double free or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that makes sendmsg system calls, leading to a free operation...

PT-2016-3448 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the netlink dump function. This occurs when the Netlink socket receives a message of type XFRM MSG GETSA or XFRM MSG GETPOLICY with the DU...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5243

The tipcnlcompatlinkdump function in net/tipc/netlinkcompat.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 does not properly copy a certain string, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a Netlink message...

PT-2016-7833 · Linux +5 · Linux Kernel +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.6.3 Description: A race condition exists in the netlink dump function, allowing local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have other unspecified impacts by making sendmsg system calls with a crafted...