USN-3099-4

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3099-4
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3099-4.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/USN-3099-4
Upstream
Related
Published
2016-10-11T07:26:06.487250Z
Modified
2025-10-13T04:34:18Z
Summary
linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities
Details

Vladimír Beneš discovered an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEB Generic Receive Offload (GRO) processing implementations in the Linux kernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack corruption, leading to a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-7039)

Marco Grassi discovered a use-after-free condition could occur in the TCP retransmit queue handling code in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-6828)

Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the Adaptec AAC RAID controller driver in the Linux kernel when handling ioctl()s. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-6480)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / linux-snapdragon

Package

Name
linux-snapdragon
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-snapdragon@4.4.0-1030.33?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
4.4.0-1030.33

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
4.4.0-1026.29

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "4.4.0-1030.33",
            "binary_name": "linux-headers-4.4.0-1030-snapdragon"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.4.0-1030.33",
            "binary_name": "linux-image-4.4.0-1030-snapdragon"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.4.0-1030.33",
            "binary_name": "linux-snapdragon-headers-4.4.0-1030"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.4.0-1030.33",
            "binary_name": "linux-snapdragon-tools-4.4.0-1030"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "4.4.0-1030.33",
            "binary_name": "linux-tools-4.4.0-1030-snapdragon"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

{
    "cves_map": {
        "cves": [
            {
                "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"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2016-6480"
            },
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                        "type": "CVSS_V3"
                    },
                    {
                        "score": "medium",
                        "type": "Ubuntu"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2016-6828"
            },
            {
                "severity": [
                    {
                        "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                        "type": "CVSS_V3"
                    },
                    {
                        "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                        "type": "CVSS_V3"
                    },
                    {
                        "score": "high",
                        "type": "Ubuntu"
                    }
                ],
                "id": "CVE-2016-7039"
            }
        ],
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"
    }
}