The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3378-1 advisory.

    Fan Wu and Shixiong Zhao discovered a race condition between inotify events and vfs rename operations in     the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system     crash) or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7533)

    It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly restrict RLIMIT_STACK size. A local attacker     could use this in conjunction with another vulnerability to possibly execute arbitrary code.
    (CVE-2017-1000365)

     discovered that the Virtio GPU driver in the Linux kernel did not properly free memory in some     situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
    (CVE-2017-10810)

     discovered that the RxRPC Kerberos 5 ticket handling code in the Linux kernel did not properly     verify metadata. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-7482)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3378-1)

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