Threats tagged 'usn-8371-1'

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Linux kernel affecting various subsystems including socket buffer handling, XFRM ESP-in-TCP, RxRPC networking, ptrace, and AppArmor notifications. These flaws could allow local attackers to escalate privileges, escape containers, cause resource exhaustion, kernel crashes, memory corruption, information disclosure, or denial of service. The issues affect Ubuntu Linux kernel versions 6.8, 6.17, and 7.0, among others. Fixes have been released in updated kernel versions.