Ralf Spenneberg of OpenSource Security reported that the iowarrior
device driver did not sufficiently validate USB descriptors. This
allowed a physically present user with a specially designed USB
device to cause a denial of service (crash).
CVE-2016-9604
It was discovered that the keyring subsystem allowed a process to
set a special internal keyring as its session keyring. The
security impact in this version of the kernel is unknown.
CVE-2016-10200
Baozeng Ding and Andrey Konovalov reported a race condition in the
L2TP implementation which could corrupt its table of bound
sockets. A local user could use this to cause a denial of service
(crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.
CVE-2017-2647 / CVE-2017-6951
idl3r reported that the keyring subsystem would allow a process
to search for 'dead' keys, causing a null pointer dereference.
A local user could use this to cause a denial of service (crash).
CVE-2017-2671
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