[USN-2870-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

Severity High

CVEs 1

The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Yevgeny Pats discovered that the session keyring implementation in the
Linux kernel did not properly reference count when joining an existing
session keyring. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of
service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with
administrative privileges.

ID

USN-2870-2

Severity

high

Severity from

CVE-2016-0728

URL

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2870-2

Published