USN-3168-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3168-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not...

USN-3160-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3160-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. CAI Qian discovered that shared bind mounts in a mount namespace exponentially added...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3149-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3149-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

USN-3149-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Philip Pettersson discovered a race condition in the afpacket implementation in the...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3145-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3145-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3145-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Marco Grassi discovered that the driver for Areca RAID Controllers in the Linux kernel...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3105-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3105-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

USN-3105-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. It was discovered that a race condition existed in the memory manager of the Linux...

USN-3098-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3098-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Marco Grassi discovered a use-after-free condition could occur in the TCP retransmit...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3083-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3083-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3083-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel did not...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3071-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3071-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3071-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS...

AF_PACKET chocobo_root Privilege Escalation

This module exploits a race condition and use-after-free in the packetsetring function in net/packet/afpacket.c AFPACKET in the Linux kernel to execute code as root CVE-2016-8655. The bug was initially introduced in 2011 and patched in 2016 in version 4.4.0-53.74, potentially affecting a large...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3051-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3054-1: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Linux netfilter implementation. On systems running 32 bit kernels, a local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges. CVE-2016-3135 It was...

USN-3051-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the keyring implementation in the Linux kernel did not ensure a data structure was initialized before referencing it after an error condition occurred. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2016-4470 Kangjie Lu discovered an...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3034-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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-3034-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

USN-3034-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Jan Stancek discovered that the Linux kernel's memory manager did not properly handle...

USN-3018-2: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3018-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham discovered that the Linux netfilter implementation did not...