Threats tagged 'usn-8370-1'

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Linux kernel affecting various subsystems including socket buffer handling (Dirty Frag and Fragnesia flaws), ptrace race conditions, and AppArmor notification handling. These issues could allow local attackers to escalate privileges, escape containers, cause resource exhaustion, kernel crashes, memory corruption, or information disclosure. The vulnerabilities affect Ubuntu Linux kernel versions 6.8, 6.17, 7.0, and related variants. Fixes have been released and are available in updated kernel packages.