USN-6971-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Option USB High Speed Mobile device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle error conditions. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-37159 A security issue was...

USN-5115-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Atheros Ath9k WiFi driver in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information WiFi network traffic. CVE-2020-3702 Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF...

USN-5092-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Valentina Palmiotti discovered that the iouring subsystem in the Linux kernel could be coerced to free adjacent memory. A local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2021-41073 Ofek Kirzner, Adam Morrison, Benedict Schlueter, and Piotr Krysiuk discovered that the BPF verifier in...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3910-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3910-1 advisory. It was discovered that the f2fs filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not handle the noflushmerge mount option correctly. An attacker could u...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3910-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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-3910-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the f2fs filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not handle the noflushmerge mount option correctly. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2017-18241 It was discovered that the procfs filesystem did not properly handle processes...

USN-3910-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3910-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It was discovered that the f2fs filesystem implementation in the Linux kernel did not...