Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3160-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3160-1 advisory. CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added entries without restriction to the Linux kernel's mount table. A loc...

USN-3159-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the procfs environread function in the Linux kernel, leading to an integer underflow. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory...

CVE-2016-7916

Race condition in the environread function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc//environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete...

CVE-2016-7916

Race condition in the environread function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc//environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete...

CVE-2016-7916

Race condition in the environread function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading a /proc//environ file during a process-setup time interval in which environment-variable copying is incomplete...