Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3016-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3016-1 advisory. Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not correctly perform validation when handling 32 bit compatibility...

Null pointer dereference

The tipcnlpubldump function in net/tipc/socket.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not verify socket existence, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a dumpit operation...