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Five New Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Patched in Ubuntu 16.10 for Raspberry Pi 2

Users are urged to update their systems now

 

Feb 10, 2017 11:40 GMT  ·  By Marius Nestor
 

Canonical announced a few hours ago the availability of a new security update for the Raspberry Pi 2 kernel packages of the Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) operating system, which patches a total of five newly discovered vulnerabilities.

 

The first security flaw (CVE-2016-10147) was discovered by Mikulas Patocka in Linux kernel’s mcryptd, the asynchronous multibuffer cryptographic daemon, which appears to incorrectly handle incompatible algorithms. This could allow a local attacker to crash the system by causing a denial of service.

 

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