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Unscored USN-2872-2 1 CVE

linux-lts-wily vulnerability

Published Jan 19, 2016 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

Yevgeny Pats discovered that the session keyring implementation in the
Linux kernel did not properly reference count when joining an existing
session keyring. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of
service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code with
administrative privileges.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS linux-lts-wily 4.2.0-25.30~14.04.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-0728