Maxim Levitsky discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD
processors in the Linux kernel did not properly prevent a guest VM from
enabling AVIC in nested guest VMs. An attacker in a guest VM could use this
to write to portions of the host’s physical memory.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-image-4.4.0-1097-kvm | <Â 4.4.0-1097.106 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-buildinfo-4.4.0-1093-kvm | <Â 4.4.0-1093.102 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-cloud-tools-4.4.0-1093-kvm | <Â 4.4.0-1093.102 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-headers-4.4.0-1093-kvm | <Â 4.4.0-1093.102 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-image-4.4.0-1093-kvm | <Â 4.4.0-1093.102 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-image-4.4.0-1093-kvm-dbgsym | <Â 4.4.0-1093.102 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-kvm-cloud-tools-4.4.0-1093 | <Â 4.4.0-1093.102 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-kvm-headers-4.4.0-1093 | <Â 4.4.0-1093.102 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-kvm-tools-4.4.0-1093 | <Â 4.4.0-1093.102 | UNKNOWN |
Ubuntu | 16.04 | noarch | linux-modules-4.4.0-1093-kvm | <Â 4.4.0-1093.102 | UNKNOWN |