USN-3511-1

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the Netlink subsystem (XFRM) in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-16939)

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle copy-on- write of transparent huge pages. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (application crashes) or possibly gain administrative privileges. (CVE-2017-1000405)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / linux-azure

Package

Name: linux-azure
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure@4.11.0-1016.16?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

4.11.0-1016.16

Affected versions

4.*

4.11.0-1009.9

4.11.0-1011.11

4.11.0-1013.13

4.11.0-1014.14

4.11.0-1015.15

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-azure-cloud-tools-4.11.0-1016",
            "binary_version": "4.11.0-1016.16"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-azure-headers-4.11.0-1016",
            "binary_version": "4.11.0-1016.16"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-azure-tools-4.11.0-1016",
            "binary_version": "4.11.0-1016.16"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-cloud-tools-4.11.0-1016-azure",
            "binary_version": "4.11.0-1016.16"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-headers-4.11.0-1016-azure",
            "binary_version": "4.11.0-1016.16"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-image-4.11.0-1016-azure",
            "binary_version": "4.11.0-1016.16"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-image-extra-4.11.0-1016-azure",
            "binary_version": "4.11.0-1016.16"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "linux-tools-4.11.0-1016-azure",
            "binary_version": "4.11.0-1016.16"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2017-16939",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "high"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2017-1000405",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "high"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}