Ubuntu Security Notice 3098-1 - It was discovered that an unbounded recursion in the VLAN and TEB Generic Receive Offload processing implementations in the Linux kernel, A remote attacker could use this to cause a stack corruption, leading to a denial of service. Marco Grassi discovered a use-after-free condition could occur in the TCP retransmit queue handling code in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed. Continue reading...
