Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3470-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3470-1 advisory. Qian Zhang discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the tipcmsgbuild function in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use to cause a denial of...

USN-3468-3: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly bound guest IRQs. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host system crash. CVE-2017-1000252 It was discovered that the Flash-Friendly File System f2fs implementation in the Linux...

USN-3468-2 linux-hwe vulnerabilities

USN-3468-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.04. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.04 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly bound guest IRQs...