USN-2840-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2840-1

17th December, 2015

linux vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.

Software description

• linux
  - Linux kernel
  
  

Details

Dmitry Vyukov discovered that the Linux kernel's keyring handler attempted
to garbage collect incompletely instantiated keys. A local unprivileged
attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).
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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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CVE-2015-8104