Canonical published today, February 22, 2017, multiple security advisories to inform Ubuntu users about the availability of new kernel updates for their Linux-based operating systems.
All supported Ubuntu releases are affected by multiple kernel vulnerabilities discovered recently by various developers and hackers, including Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), which received its second point release, versioned 16.04.2, last week with the Linux kernel 4.8 packages from Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak).
We usually publish a single article with all the common kernel vulnerabilities fixed by the new updates, but this time we separated Ubuntu 16.04 LTS from the rest because it appears to have the most patches. A total of seven security issues were documented by Canonical in Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3208-1.
Here are the security issues affecting Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
The first security issue (<a href="http://peo… (read more)
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