CVE-2017-7979

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3314-1

Posted Jun 7, 2017

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3314-1 - It was discovered that the keyring implementation in the Linux kernel in some situations did not prevent special internal keyrings from being joined by userspace keyrings. A privileged local attacker could use this to bypass module verification. It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the trace subsystem in the Linux kernel. A privileged local attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, overflow, arbitrary, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2016-9604, CVE-2017-0605, CVE-2017-2671, CVE-2017-7277, CVE-2017-7472, CVE-2017-7618, CVE-2017-7645, CVE-2017-7889, CVE-2017-7895, CVE-2017-7979, CVE-2017-8063, CVE-2017-8064, CVE-2017-8067

SHA-256 | 97b6224fb0c1440e3c27196c751fe7e85e5f5e540f680453e3395eb740d8b882

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