vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-6136): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 6, 2016
Added
Sep 19, 2016
Modified
Aug 18, 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)

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-98-genericubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-98-generic-lpaeubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-98-lowlatencyubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-98-powerpc-e500ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-98-powerpc-e500mcubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-98-powerpc-smpubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-98-powerpc64-embubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-98-powerpc64-smpubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-111-genericubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-111-generic-paeubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-111-highbankubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-111-omapubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-111-powerpc-smpubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-111-powerpc64-smpubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-111-virtualubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-2-0-1489-omap4ubuntu-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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