Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities (USN-3632-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3632-1 advisory. It was discovered that a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ALSA PCM subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3620-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-3620-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the netlink 802.11 configuration interface in the Linux kernel did not properly validate some attributes passed from userspace. A local attacker with the CAPNETADMIN privilege could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code...