ubuntu · CVE-2016-0728

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Priority: high Published: 2016-01-19 12:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:50:45 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-0728 high priority: Ubuntu including 28 source packages (linux, linux-armadaxp, …), 187 status rows across 7 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety): DNE 118, released 36, not-affected 26, ignored 7.

Description:

The join_session_keyring function in security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 mishandles object references in a certain error case, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (integer overflow and use-after-free) via crafted keyctl commands.

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