USN-8924-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the timer stats implementation in the Linux kernel allowed the discovery of a real PID value while inside a PID namespace. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2017-5967) Wen Xu discovered that the XFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly track inode validations. An attacker could use this to construct a malicious XFS image that, when…

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