Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3162-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3162-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-6213 It was discovered that the KVM implementation for x86/x8664 ...

CVE-2016-9313

security/keys/bigkey.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.7 mishandles unsuccessful crypto registration in conjunction with successful key-type registration, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and panic or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafte...

CVE-2016-9313

CVE-2016-9313 affects the Linux kernel in security/keys/big_key.c (big_key data type). The issue arises when unsuccessful crypto registration occurs in conjunction with a subsequent key-type registration, enabling local users to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and kernel panic (denial of servi...