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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3071-2

Posted Aug 29, 2016

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3071-2 - USN-3071-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, kernel, local, vulnerability

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2016-5244, CVE-2016-5696, CVE-2016-5728, CVE-2016-5828, CVE-2016-5829

SHA-256 | 3566417846c77d69e8d6e988ac18f853f3f5643c015dda7a7a0b163ac03ba13e

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