Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2842-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2842-2 advisory. Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2844-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2844-1 advisory. Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2843-1)

Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host OS. CVE-2015-8104 Guoyong Gang discovered th...