USN-4041-1: Linux kernel update | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Description USN-4017-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu. Unfortunately, the update introduced a regression that interfered with networking applications that setup very low SOSNDBUF values. This...

CVE-2012-6704

The socksetsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5 mishandles negative values of sksndbuf and skrcvbuf, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN...

Memory corruption

The socksetsockopt function in net/core/sock.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5 mishandles negative values of sksndbuf and skrcvbuf, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN...