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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3469-1

Posted Oct 31, 2017

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3469-1 - Anthony Perard discovered that the Xen virtual block driver did not properly initialize some data structures before passing them to user space. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information from the host OS or other guest VMs. Bo Zhang discovered that the netlink wireless configuration interface in the Linux kernel did not properly validate attributes when handling certain requests. A local attacker with the CAP_NET_ADMIN could use this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2017-10911, CVE-2017-12153, CVE-2017-12154, CVE-2017-12192, CVE-2017-14051, CVE-2017-14156, CVE-2017-14340, CVE-2017-14489, CVE-2017-14991, CVE-2017-15537, CVE-2017-9984, CVE-2017-9985

SHA-256 | 04cc3e67a19f3ee8637e2800765e1cf7c138d3aee0e7534753e7272826f5de09

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