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Unscored USN-2849-1 4 CVEs

linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

Published Dec 19, 2015 · Updated Sep 7, 2026

Summary

Felix Wilhelm discovered a race condition in the Xen paravirtualized
drivers which can cause double fetch vulnerabilities. An attacker in the
paravirtualized guest could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service
(crash the host) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host.
(CVE-2015-8550)

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk discovered the Xen PCI backend driver does not
perform consistency checks on the device's state. An attacker could exploit this
flaw to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference) on the host.
(CVE-2015-8551)

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk discovered the Xen PCI backend driver does not
perform consistency checks on the device's state. An attacker could exploit this
flaw to cause a denial of service by flooding the logging system with
WARN() messages causing the initial domain to exhaust disk space.
(CVE-2015-8552)

Jann Horn discovered a ptrace issue with user namespaces in the Linux
kernel. The namespace owner could potentially exploit this flaw by ptracing
a root owned process entering the user namespace to elevate its privileges
and potentially gain access outside of the namespace.
(http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527374, CVE-2015-8709)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS linux-lts-utopic 3.16.0-57.77~14.04.1

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8550
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8551
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8552
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8709