{"id":"USN-3084-4","summary":"linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities","details":"Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the\nLinux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or\ndisrupt system-call auditing. (CVE-2016-6136)\n\nIt was discovered that the powerpc and powerpc64 hypervisor-mode KVM\nimplementation in the Linux kernel for did not properly maintain state\nabout transactional memory. An unprivileged attacker in a guest could cause\na denial of service (CPU lockup) in the host OS. (CVE-2016-5412)\n\nPengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the Chrome OS embedded\ncontroller device driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use\nthis to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-6156)\n","modified":"2026-02-10T04:41:02Z","published":"2016-09-19T19:12:35Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5412","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6136","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6156"],"upstream":["CVE-2016-5412","CVE-2016-6136","CVE-2016-6156","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5412","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6136","UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6156"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3084-4"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5412"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6136"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6156"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux-snapdragon","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-snapdragon@4.4.0-1026.29?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.4.0-1026.29"}]}],"versions":["4.4.0-1012.12","4.4.0-1013.14","4.4.0-1013.15","4.4.0-1015.18","4.4.0-1019.22","4.4.0-1020.23","4.4.0-1022.25","4.4.0-1024.27"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"linux-headers-4.4.0-1026-snapdragon","binary_version":"4.4.0-1026.29"},{"binary_name":"linux-image-4.4.0-1026-snapdragon","binary_version":"4.4.0-1026.29"},{"binary_name":"linux-snapdragon-headers-4.4.0-1026","binary_version":"4.4.0-1026.29"},{"binary_name":"linux-snapdragon-tools-4.4.0-1026","binary_version":"4.4.0-1026.29"},{"binary_name":"linux-tools-4.4.0-1026-snapdragon","binary_version":"4.4.0-1026.29"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3084-4.json","cves_map":{"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","cves":[{"id":"CVE-2016-5412","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-6136","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"low","type":"Ubuntu"}]},{"id":"CVE-2016-6156","severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"medium","type":"Ubuntu"}]}]}}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}