USN-3084-4

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)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / linux-snapdragon

Package

Name: linux-snapdragon
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-snapdragon@4.4.0-1026.29?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.4.0-1026.29

Affected versions

4.*

4.4.0-1012.12

4.4.0-1013.14

4.4.0-1013.15

4.4.0-1015.18

4.4.0-1019.22

4.4.0-1020.23

4.4.0-1022.25

4.4.0-1024.27

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-headers-4.4.0-1026-snapdragon",
            "binary_version": "4.4.0-1026.29"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-image-4.4.0-1026-snapdragon",
            "binary_version": "4.4.0-1026.29"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-snapdragon-headers-4.4.0-1026",
            "binary_version": "4.4.0-1026.29"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-snapdragon-tools-4.4.0-1026",
            "binary_version": "4.4.0-1026.29"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-tools-4.4.0-1026-snapdragon",
            "binary_version": "4.4.0-1026.29"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-5412",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-6136",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "low",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2016-6156",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}