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Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

Description

## Releases * Ubuntu 14.04 ESM ## Packages * linux-lts-xenial \- Linux hardware enablement kernel from Xenial for Trusty USN-3084-1 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. Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt system-call auditing. (CVE-2016-6136) It was discovered that the powerpc and powerpc64 hypervisor-mode KVM implementation in the Linux kernel for did not properly maintain state about transactional memory. An unprivileged attacker in a guest could cause a denial of service (CPU lockup) in the host OS. (CVE-2016-5412) Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the Chrome OS embedded controller device driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-6156)


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
Ubuntu 14.04 linux-image-4.4.0-38-generic 4.4.0-38.57~14.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 linux-image-4.4.0-38-generic-lpae 4.4.0-38.57~14.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 linux-image-4.4.0-38-lowlatency 4.4.0-38.57~14.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 linux-image-4.4.0-38-powerpc-e500mc 4.4.0-38.57~14.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 linux-image-4.4.0-38-powerpc-smp 4.4.0-38.57~14.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 linux-image-4.4.0-38-powerpc64-emb 4.4.0-38.57~14.04.1
Ubuntu 14.04 linux-image-4.4.0-38-powerpc64-smp 4.4.0-38.57~14.04.1

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