Ubuntu Security Notice 6740-1 - Wei Chen discovered that a race condition existed in the TIPC protocol implementation in the Linux kernel, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the virtio network implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle file references in the host, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly expose sensitive information.
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