Canonical has released a major Linux kernel update for the Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system series addressing more than 20 security vulnerabilities affecting the Linux 4.13 kernel. According to the security advisory, a total of 22 security vulnerabilities were patched in this new kernel update, including several use-after-free vulnerabilities in Linux kernel’s ALSA PCM subsystem, network namespaces implementation, a race condition in the OCFS2 filesystem implementation, as well as a race condition in loop block device implementation.

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