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[USN-3264-2] Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerability

Severity Medium
CVEs 1
Info Vulnerabilities

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

USN-3264-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04
LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux
Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu
12.04 LTS.

Alexander Popov discovered that a race condition existed in the Stream
Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) implementation in the Linux kernel. A
local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).

ID
USN-3264-2
Severity
medium
Severity from
CVE-2017-5986
URL
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3264-2
Published
2017-04-24T23:53:41
(7 years ago)
Modified
2017-04-24T23:53:41
(7 years ago)
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