In the Linux kernel before 4.17, a local attacker able to set attributes on an xfs filesystem could make this filesystem non-operational until the next mount by triggering an unchecked error condition during an xfs attribute change, because xfs_attr_shortform_addname in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c mishandles ATTR_REPLACE operations with conversion of an attr from short to long form.

In the Linux kernel before 4.17, a local attacker able to set attributes on an xfs filesystem could make this filesystem non-operational until the next mount by triggering an unchecked error condition during an xfs attribute change, because xfs_attr_shortform_addname in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c mishandles ATTR_REPLACE operations with conversion of an attr from short to long form.

kernel: AIO write triggers integer overflow in some protocols kernel: Information leak when handling NM entries containing NUL kernel: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not properly pretected against race kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero-length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial-of-service kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in mm/madvise.c:madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of service kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local Denial of Service kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/posix-timers.c kernel: Division by zero in change_port_settings in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c resulting in a denial of service kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4/mballoc.c:ext4_process_freed_data() when mounting crafted ext4 image kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_inode_hash() causes crash with crafted ext4 image kernel: vhost: Information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline arguments causes denial of service kernel: a null pointer dereference in net/dccp/output.c:dccp_write_xmit() leads to a system crash kernel: drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization allowing denial-of-service kernel: IP fragments with random offsets allow a remote denial of service (FragmentSmack) kernel…

kernel: AIO write triggers integer overflow in some protocols kernel: Information leak when handling NM entries containing NUL kernel: Use-after-free in snd_pcm_info function in ALSA subsystem potentially leads to privilege escalation kernel: Handling of might_cancel queueing is not properly pretected against race kernel: Salsa20 encryption algorithm does not correctly handle zero-length inputs allowing local attackers to cause denial-of-service kernel: Inifinite loop vulnerability in mm/madvise.c:madvise_willneed() function allows local denial of service kernel: Mishandling mutex within libsas allowing local Denial of Service kernel: out-of-bounds access in the show_timer function in kernel/time/posix-timers.c kernel: Division by zero in change_port_settings in drivers/usb/serial/io_ti.c resulting in a denial of service kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4/mballoc.c:ext4_process_freed_data() when mounting crafted ext4 image kernel: NULL pointer dereference in ext4/xattr.c:ext4_xattr_inode_hash() causes crash with crafted ext4 image kernel: vhost: Information disclosure in vhost/vhost.c:vhost_new_msg() kernel: fuse-backed file mmap-ed onto process cmdline arguments causes denial of service kernel: a null pointer dereference in net/dccp/output.c:dccp_write_xmit() leads to a system crash kernel: drivers/block/loop.c mishandles lo_release serialization allowing denial-of-service kernel: IP fragments with random offsets allow a remote denial of service (FragmentSmack) kernel…

Security update for the Linux Kernel

Affected: Ubuntu:14.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:14.04:LTS: linux-aws, Ubuntu:14.04:LTS: linux-azure, Ubuntu:14.04:LTS: linux-lts-xenial, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux-aws, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux-azure, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux-hwe, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: linux-kvm and 23 more

In the Linux kernel before 4.17, a local attacker able to set attributes on an xfs filesystem could make this filesystem non-operational until the next mount by triggering an unchecked error condition during an xfs attribute change, because xfs_attr_shortform_addname in fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_attr.c mishandles ATTR_REPLACE operations with conversion of an attr from short to long form.