Shi Lei discovered that RxRPC Kerberos 5 ticket handling code does
not properly verify metadata, leading to information disclosure,
denial of service or potentially execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2017-7542
An integer overflow vulnerability in the ip6_find_1stfragopt()
function was found allowing a local attacker with privileges to open
raw sockets to cause a denial of service.
CVE-2017-7889
Tommi Rantala and Brad Spengler reported that the mm subsystem does
not properly enforce the CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM protection mechanism,
allowing a local attacker with access to /dev/mem to obtain
sensitive information or potentially execute arbitrary code.
CVE-2017-10661
Dmitry Vyukov of Google reported that the timerfd facility does
not properly handle certain concurrent operations on a single file
descriptor. This allows a local attacker to cause a denial of
service or potentially to execute arbitrary code.
CVE-2017-10911 / XSA-216
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