Sergej Schumilo and Ralf Spenneberg discovered that a crafted ext4
filesystem could trigger memory corruption when it is mounted. A
user that can provide a device or filesystem image to be mounted
could use this for denial of service (crash or data corruption) or
possibly for privilege escalation.
CVE-2017-8824
Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the DCCP implementation did not
correctly manage resources when a socket is disconnected and
reconnected, potentially leading to a use-after-free. A local
user could use this for denial of service (crash or data
corruption) or possibly for privilege escalation. On systems that
do not already have the dccp module loaded, this can be mitigated
by disabling it:
echo >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-dccp.conf install dccp false
CVE-2017-8831
Pengfei Wang discovered that the saa7164 video capture driver
re-reads data from a PCI device after validating it. A physically
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