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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3777-3

Posted Oct 23, 2018

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 3777-3 - USN-3777-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 %LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux kernel for Azure Cloud systems. Jann Horn discovered that the vmacache subsystem did not properly handle sequence number overflows, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

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

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2018-14633, CVE-2018-15572, CVE-2018-15594, CVE-2018-17182, CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2018-6554, CVE-2018-6555

SHA-256 | 769cc3a35204cab453698f34a6b0570d79e3ff0a88450698a2577c0e6fc6a664

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