DSA-3696-1 linux -- linuxID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:602648 | Date: (C)2016-10-21 (M)2023-12-20 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2015-8956 It was discovered that missing input sanitising in RFCOMM Bluetooth socket handling may result in denial of service or information leak. CVE-2016-5195 It was discovered that a race condition in the memory management code can be used for local privilege escalation. CVE-2016-7042 Ondrej Kozina discovered that incorrect buffer allocation in the proc_keys_show function may result in local denial of service. CVE-2016-7425 Marco Grassi discovered a buffer overflow in the arcmsr SCSI driver which may result in local denial of service, or potentially, arbitrary code execution. Additionally this update fixes a regression introduced in DSA-3616-1 causing iptables performance issues .