USN-3510-1

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USN-3510-1

Summary: linux vulnerabilities

Details: Mohamed Ghannam discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the Netlink subsystem (XFRM) in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16939) It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle copy-on- write of transparent huge pages. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (application crashes) or possibly gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2017-1000405)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3510-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16939, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000405