vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-5412): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 6, 2016
Added
Sep 19, 2016
Modified
Apr 14, 2025

Description

Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the
Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or
disrupt system-call auditing. (CVE-2016-6136)

It was discovered that the powerpc and powerpc64 hypervisor-mode KVM
implementation in the Linux kernel for did not properly maintain state
about transactional memory. An unprivileged attacker in a guest could cause
a denial of service (CPU lockup) in the host OS. (CVE-2016-5412)

Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the Chrome OS embedded
controller device driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use
this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-6156)

Solution(s)

ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1023-raspi2ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1026-snapdragonubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-38-genericubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-38-generic-lpaeubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-38-lowlatencyubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-38-powerpc-e500mcubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-38-powerpc-smpubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-38-powerpc64-embubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-38-powerpc64-smp
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