Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5161-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5161-1 advisory. Ilja Van Sprundel discovered that the SCTP implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform size validations on incoming packets in some...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5136-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5136-1 advisory. It was discovered that the f2fs file system in the Linux kernel did not properly validate metadata in some situations. An attacker could use...

CVE-2021-42252

An issue was discovered in aspeedlpcctrlmmap in drivers/soc/aspeed/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.c in the Linux kernel before 5.14.6. Local attackers able to access the Aspeed LPC control interface could overwrite memory in the kernel and potentially execute privileges, aka CID-b49a0e69a7b1. This occurs becaus...