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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3070-2

Posted Aug 30, 2016

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3070-2 - A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain access to any file by setting an ACL. 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

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2016-1237, CVE-2016-5244, CVE-2016-5400, CVE-2016-5696, CVE-2016-5728, CVE-2016-5828, CVE-2016-5829, CVE-2016-6197

SHA-256 | ea8ebece878c9ec1bdb289ff938356e56dc9c698e0e7b55ac18137e6e45dca21

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