Debian Linux Security Advisory 3823-1 – Ilja Van Sprundel discovered that the dmcrypt-get-device helper used to check if a given device is an encrypted device handled by devmapper, and used in eject, does not check return values from setuid() and setgid() when dropping privileges.
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3247-1
Ubuntu Security Notice 3247-1 – St=E9phane Graber discovered that AppArmor incorrectly unloaded some profiles when restarted or upgraded, contrary to expected behavior.
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3244-1
Ubuntu Security Notice 3244-1 – Hanno Boeck discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handle certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted media file with a GStreamer application, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash.
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3246-1
Ubuntu Security Notice 3246-1 – Ilja Van Sprundel discovered that dmcrypt-get-device incorrectly checked setuid and setgid return values. A local attacker could use this issue to execute code as an administrator.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201703-04
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201703-4 – A coding error has been found in cURL, causing the TLS Certificate Status Request extension check to always return true. Versions less than 7.53.0 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201703-05
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201703-5 – A vulnerability in Libtasn1 allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. Versions less than 4.8 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201703-06
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201703-6 – A vulnerability in Deluge might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Versions less than 1.3.14 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201703-07
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 201703-7 – A vulnerability in Xen’s bundled QEMU version might allow privilege escalation. Versions less than 4.7.1-r8 are affected.
Debian Security Advisory 3821-1
Debian Linux Security Advisory 3821-1 – Hanno Boeck discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the GStreamer media framework and its codecs and demuxers, which may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media file is opened.
CVE-2016-6807
Custom commands may be executed on Ambari Agent (2.4.x, before 2.4.2) hosts without authorization, leading to unauthorized access to operations that may affect the underlying system. Such operations are invoked by the Ambari Agent process on Ambari Agent hosts, as the user executing the Ambari Agent process.