Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5164-1)

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-5164-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Option USB High Speed Mobile device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle error conditions. A...

CVE-2010-3298

CVE-2010-3298 affects the Linux kernel. The hso_get_count function in drivers/net/usb/hso.c, in kernel builds before 2.6.36-rc5, does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to read potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via the TIOCGICOUNT ioctl. T...