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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3619-1

Posted Apr 4, 2018

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3619-1 - Jann Horn discovered that the Berkeley Packet Filter implementation in the Linux kernel improperly performed sign extension in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that a race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the ALSA PCM subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2017-0861, CVE-2017-1000407, CVE-2017-11472, CVE-2017-15129, CVE-2017-16528, CVE-2017-16532, CVE-2017-16536, CVE-2017-16537, CVE-2017-16645, CVE-2017-16646, CVE-2017-16649, CVE-2017-16650, CVE-2017-16911, CVE-2017-16912, CVE-2017-16913, CVE-2017-16914, CVE-2017-16994, CVE-2017-16995, CVE-2017-17448, CVE-2017-17449, CVE-2017-17450, CVE-2017-17558, CVE-2017-17741, CVE-2017-17805, CVE-2017-17806, CVE-2017-17807

SHA-256 | c6a6f41fea45fbea18a8b7d6e773995876e32e44e04595bd392e7b20c000dc48

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