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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4984-1

Posted Jun 4, 2021

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 4984-1 - Jan Beulich discovered that the Xen netback backend in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain error conditions under paravirtualization. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the Realtek RTL8188EU Wireless device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate ssid lengths in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2021-28038, CVE-2021-28660, CVE-2021-28688, CVE-2021-28950, CVE-2021-28952, CVE-2021-28964, CVE-2021-28971, CVE-2021-28972, CVE-2021-29647, CVE-2021-30002, CVE-2021-31916, CVE-2021-33033, CVE-2021-3483

SHA-256 | 47d0f4a3952d8cf4b938ec83f7efd85bdb8431f9f1a68e359b4de49fcf50d2ed

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