Ubuntu Security Notice 3042-1 – Andreas Cord-Landwehr discovered that KDE-Libs incorrectly handled extracting certain archives. If a user were tricked into extracting a specially-crafted archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files out of the extraction directory.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-1489-01 – The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix: A flaw was found in the way certain interfaces of the Linux kernel’s Infiniband subsystem used write() as bi-directional ioctl() replacement, which could lead to insufficient memory security checks when being invoked using the splice() system call. A local unprivileged user on a system with either Infiniband hardware present or RDMA Userspace Connection Manager Access module explicitly loaded, could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system.
Several issues have been discovered in the MariaDB database server. The
vulnerabilities are addressed by upgrading MariaDB to the new upstream
version 10.0.26. Please see the MariaDB 10.0 Release Notes for further
details:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems: