USN-3084-1
Advisory lineage Upstream: 6 Downstream: 0
Published: 19 Sept 2016, 18:49
Last modified:22 Apr 2026, 09:28
Vulnerability Summary
Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100 CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected
Timeline
19 Sept 2016, 18:49
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
22 Apr 2026, 09:28
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated
Description
linux vulnerabilities Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the audit subsystem in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to corrupt audit logs or disrupt system-call auditing. (CVE-2016-6136) It was discovered that the powerpc and powerpc64 hypervisor-mode KVM implementation in the Linux kernel for did not properly maintain state about transactional memory. An unprivileged attacker in a guest could cause a denial of service (CPU lockup) in the host OS. (CVE-2016-5412) Pengfei Wang discovered a race condition in the Chrome OS embedded controller device driver in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-6156)
Affected Systems
- ubuntu•linux
< 4.4.0-38.57